Bug 525537 (capmma) - libcap: cap_init sets version when polling kernel for supported cap version
Summary: libcap: cap_init sets version when polling kernel for supported cap version
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: capmma
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libcap
Version: 12
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: setroubleshoot_trace_hash:2c9297c40fe...
: 517582 521075 526333 526531 527040 527472 528603 529803 539451 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-09-24 18:15 UTC by Flóki Pálsson
Modified: 2018-04-11 14:16 UTC (History)
18 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-12-04 07:38:59 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Flóki Pálsson 2009-09-24 18:15:57 UTC
The following was filed automatically by setroubleshoot:

Summary:

Your system may be seriously compromised! /bin/dbus-daemon attempted to mmap low
kernel memory.

Detailed Description:

[dbus-daemon has a permissive type (system_dbusd_t). This access was not
denied.]

SELinux has denied the dbus-daemon the ability to mmap low area of the kernel
address space. The ability to mmap a low area of the address space, as
configured by /proc/sys/kernel/mmap_min_addr. Preventing such mappings helps
protect against exploiting null deref bugs in the kernel. All applications that
need this access should have already had policy written for them. If a
compromised application tries modify the kernel this AVC would be generated.
This is a serious issue. Your system may very well be compromised.

Allowing Access:

Contact your security administrator and report this issue.

Additional Information:

Source Context                system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Objects                None [ memprotect ]
Source                        dbus-daemon
Source Path                   /bin/dbus-daemon
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           dbus-1.2.16-5.fc12
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.6.32-8.fc12
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
MLS Enabled                   True
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   mmap_zero
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 2.6.31-33.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu
                              Sep 17 15:40:43 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   6
First Seen                    Thu 24 Sep 2009 05:51:15 PM GMT
Last Seen                     Thu 24 Sep 2009 05:51:15 PM GMT
Local ID                      75d7dca8-4a1a-4aea-bb27-9c12bf5e3729
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1253814675.340:13): avc:  denied  { mmap_zero } for  pid=952 comm="dbus-daemon" scontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=memprotect

node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1253814675.340:13): avc:  denied  { mmap_zero } for  pid=952 comm="dbus-daemon" scontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=memprotect

node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1253814675.340:13): avc:  denied  { mmap_zero } for  pid=952 comm="dbus-daemon" scontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=memprotect

node=(removed) type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1253814675.340:13): arch=c000003e syscall=125 success=yes exit=0 a0=7fff6d94af64 a1=0 a2=7fff6b677e80 a3=7fff3a622e30 items=0 ppid=1 pid=952 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="dbus-daemon" exe="/bin/dbus-daemon" subj=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)


flokipaudit2allow suggests:

#============= system_dbusd_t ==============
allow system_dbusd_t self:memprotect mmap_zero;

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2009-09-24 18:34:06 UTC
Dbus should not require this access.

Comment 2 Eric Paris 2009-09-24 18:53:02 UTC
I have no idea how the capget syscall keeps hitting mmap_zero.  But this looks to be a kernel bug to me...

Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2009-09-27 10:26:27 UTC
Is this reproducible?

Comment 4 Flóki Pálsson 2009-09-27 22:30:13 UTC
I do not know. Sealet is not running, bug 525757.

Comment 5 Eric Paris 2009-10-05 14:11:59 UTC
*** Bug 526333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Eric Paris 2009-10-05 14:12:09 UTC
*** Bug 526531 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Eric Paris 2009-10-05 14:12:21 UTC
*** Bug 527040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Eric Paris 2009-10-06 02:20:34 UTC
Finally got a reproducer, there must be both a userspace a kernel space bug involved here.  Going to take a bit more digging tomorrow.

Comment 9 Eric Paris 2009-10-06 14:26:59 UTC
libcap/cap_alloc.c::cap_init()

result->head.version = _LIBCAP_CAPABILITY_VERSION;
capget(&result->head, NULL);      /* load the kernel-capability version */

The problem with this is that the kernel only sets the .version when the version passed in is not valid.  This call is actually trying to write a version 3 set of the capabilities to address 0.

From the man page:
The calls will fail with the error EINVAL, and set the version field of hdrp to the kernel preferred value  of  _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_?  when an unsupported version value is specified.  In this way, one can probe what the current preferred capability revision is.

The best thing to do here is to either set .version = 0 before this call or to just 0 the entire struct before you make the call.  This will fix the issue we are having with SELinux as well.

Comment 10 Eric Paris 2009-10-13 15:59:32 UTC
*** Bug 517582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Eric Paris 2009-10-13 16:05:38 UTC
*** Bug 528603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Eric Paris 2009-10-14 12:13:18 UTC
*** Bug 521075 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Eric Paris 2009-10-20 12:46:58 UTC
*** Bug 529803 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 Eric Paris 2009-10-21 01:01:19 UTC
*** Bug 527472 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 12:52:10 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 16 Eric Paris 2009-11-20 13:19:39 UTC
*** Bug 539451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Comment 20 Bug Zapper 2010-12-04 07:38:59 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
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