From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 47229@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47229: Local privilege escalation via guix-daemon and ‘--keep-failed’
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:10:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFPB2RTVkRxx8sfk@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfaksock.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 12:17:15PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> It does not affect multi-user setups where ‘guix-daemon’ runs on a
> separate machine and is accessed over the network, via
> ‘GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET’, as is customary on cluster setups. Machines where
> the Linux “protected hardlink”[*] feature is enabled, which is common,
> are also unaffected—this is the case when the contents of
> /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks are 1.
After publishing the advisory, we received a clarification about the
impact of "protected hardlinks".
When using a guix-daemon that does not include the fix [0] for the bug
reported here, it is still possible for rogue build scripts to escape
the build environment, even when protected hardlinks are enabled.
Protected hardlinks do make exploitation significantly more difficult,
but not impossible.
For this reason, we continue to recommend that all Guix users upgrade
their guix-daemons, as described in the original advisory.
[0]
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=ec7fb669945bfb47c5e1fdf7de3a5d07f7002ccf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-18 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-18 11:17 bug#47229: Local privilege escalation via guix-daemon and ‘--keep-failed’ Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-18 11:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-18 13:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-18 11:53 ` Léo Le Bouter via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-03-18 21:10 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-04-10 17:56 ` Leo Famulari
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