userns: Changing any namespace id mappings should require privileges

commit 41c21e351e79004dbb4efa4bc14a53a7e0af38c5 upstream.

Changing uid/gid/projid mappings doesn't change your id within the
namespace; it reconfigures the namespace.  Unprivileged programs should
*not* be able to write these files.  (We're also checking the privileges
on the wrong task.)

Given the write-once nature of these files and the other security
checks, this is likely impossible to usefully exploit.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index fdf40d6cf8a46bf1f679a0ee75a84283573c281d..f359dc7fb8c589642ac60ffa2b7c2b583ed7ae9c 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -576,10 +576,10 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
        if (map->nr_extents != 0)
                goto out;
 
-       /* Require the appropriate privilege CAP_SETUID or CAP_SETGID
-        * over the user namespace in order to set the id mapping.
+       /*
+        * Adjusting namespace settings requires capabilities on the target.
         */
-       if (cap_valid(cap_setid) && !ns_capable(ns, cap_setid))
+       if (cap_valid(cap_setid) && !file_ns_capable(file, ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
                goto out;
 
        /* Get a buffer */