Bug 1866271

Summary:	CVE-2020-15708 libvirt: incorrect permissions on the UNIX domain socket allows local attacker to escalate privileges [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	32	CC:	agedosier, berrange, clalancette, itamar, jforbes, laine, libvirt-maint, veillard, virt-maint
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
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Last Closed:	2020-08-05 09:54:11 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	1866270

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-08-05 09:38:00 UTC

This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of fedora-all.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs

When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s).  This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.

Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.

NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora. While only
one tracking bug has been filed, please correct all affected versions at
the same time.  If you need to fix the versions independent of each other,
you may clone this bug as appropriate.

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-08-05 09:38:12 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=medium

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=1866270,1866271

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2020-08-05 09:54:11 UTC

This is an Ubuntu specific flaw because they change the libvirt defaults in their distro to disable use of polkit for authentication, without also changing the socket permissisons.

The normal upstream behaviour is that the socket is mode 0666, and when an unprivileged user connects, polkit will validate the client and require them to provide the root password before libvirt allows any RPC calls to be performed.

Fedora follows this upstream behaviour and uses polkit for auth, so there is no security flaw here.