From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:14:19 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] userns: Don't allow unprivileged creation of gid mappings As any gid mapping will allow and must allow for backwards compatibility dropping groups don't allow any gid mappings to be established without CAP_SETGID in the parent user namespace. For a small class of applications this change breaks userspace and removes useful functionality. This small class of applications includes tools/testing/selftests/mount/unprivilged-remount-test.c Most of the removed functionality will be added back with the addition of a one way knob to disable setgroups. Once setgroups is disabled setting the gid_map becomes as safe as setting the uid_map. For more common applications that set the uid_map and the gid_map with privilege this change will have no affect. This is part of a fix for CVE-2014-8989. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- kernel/user_namespace.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c index 27c8dab48c07..1ce6d67c07b7 100644 --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c @@ -821,10 +821,6 @@ static bool new_idmap_permitted(const struct file *file, kuid_t uid = make_kuid(ns->parent, id); if (uid_eq(uid, file->f_cred->fsuid)) return true; - } else if (cap_setid == CAP_SETGID) { - kgid_t gid = make_kgid(ns->parent, id); - if (gid_eq(gid, file->f_cred->fsgid)) - return true; } } -- 2.1.0