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userns: Only allow the creator of the userns unprivileged mappings
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:22:14 +0000 (23:22 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2015 18:27:48 +0000 (10:27 -0800)
commit8d41571260ca459535d17223ee93ff37f02a1a37
tree356f8eb15ee1dfa76cecef248a1ea8d28307813b
parent27e607b81b25b9bdff690d4503917ef8bd678177
userns: Only allow the creator of the userns unprivileged mappings

commit f95d7918bd1e724675de4940039f2865e5eec5fe upstream.

If you did not create the user namespace and are allowed
to write to uid_map or gid_map you should already have the necessary
privilege in the parent user namespace to establish any mapping
you want so this will not affect userspace in practice.

Limiting unprivileged uid mapping establishment to the creator of the
user namespace makes it easier to verify all credentials obtained with
the uid mapping can be obtained without the uid mapping without
privilege.

Limiting unprivileged gid mapping establishment (which is temporarily
absent) to the creator of the user namespace also ensures that the
combination of uid and gid can already be obtained without privilege.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2014-8989.

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/user_namespace.c