rootfs: avoid using os.Create for new device inodes

If an attacker were to make the target of a device inode creation be a
symlink to some host path, os.Create would happily truncate the target
which could lead to all sorts of issues. This exploit is probably not as
exploitable because device inodes are usually only bind-mounted for
rootless containers, which cannot overwrite important host files (though
user files would still be up for grabs).

The regular inode creation logic could also theoretically be tricked
into changing the access mode and ownership of host files if the
newly-created device inode was swapped with a symlink to a host path.

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
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Aleksa Sarai
2025-05-15 21:38:32 +10:00
parent aa466450ae
commit fb875cb9bc
3 changed files with 130 additions and 23 deletions
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@@ -160,3 +160,23 @@ func SetLinuxPersonality(personality int) error {
}
return nil
}
// GetPtyPeer is a wrapper for ioctl(TIOCGPTPEER).
func GetPtyPeer(ptyFd uintptr, unsafePeerPath string, flags int) (*os.File, error) {
// Make sure O_NOCTTY is always set -- otherwise runc might accidentally
// gain it as a controlling terminal. O_CLOEXEC also needs to be set to
// make sure we don't leak the handle either.
flags |= unix.O_NOCTTY | unix.O_CLOEXEC
// There is no nice wrapper for this kind of ioctl in unix.
peerFd, _, errno := unix.Syscall(
unix.SYS_IOCTL,
ptyFd,
uintptr(unix.TIOCGPTPEER),
uintptr(flags),
)
if errno != 0 {
return nil, os.NewSyscallError("ioctl TIOCGPTPEER", errno)
}
return os.NewFile(peerFd, unsafePeerPath), nil
}