[Devel] [PATCH RH7 19/22] ms/fs: Add a missing permission check to do_umount

Pavel Tikhomirov ptikhomirov at virtuozzo.com
Thu Mar 10 08:32:12 PST 2016


commit a1480dcc3c70 ("fs: Add a missing permission check to do_umount")

Accessing do_remount_sb should require global CAP_SYS_ADMIN, but
only one of the two call sites was appropriately protected.

Fixes CVE-2014-7975.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov at virtuozzo.com>
---
 fs/namespace.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index b5675e6..2052380 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1300,6 +1300,8 @@ static int do_umount(struct mount *mnt, int flags)
 		 * Special case for "unmounting" root ...
 		 * we just try to remount it readonly.
 		 */
+		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+			return -EPERM;
 		down_write(&sb->s_umount);
 		if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
 			retval = do_remount_sb(sb, MS_RDONLY, NULL, 0);
-- 
1.9.3



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