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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2021-03-18 11:39:39 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2021-03-18 12:18:56 +0100
commitec7fb669945bfb47c5e1fdf7de3a5d07f7002ccf (patch)
treeb9330befde8c1dc8a07ad1a2571cbe4d008a0128 /nix/libstore
parent898489f48e436e45e86e1ba0fcdb6df5cd5a051a (diff)
daemon: Prevent privilege escalation with '--keep-failed' [security].
Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/47229>. Reported by Nathan Nye of WhiteBeam Security. * nix/libstore/build.cc (DerivationGoal::startBuilder): When 'useChroot' is true, add "/top" to 'tmpDir'. (DerivationGoal::deleteTmpDir): Adjust accordingly. When 'settings.keepFailed' is true, chown in two steps: first the "/top" sub-directory, and then rename "/top" to its parent.
Diffstat (limited to 'nix/libstore')
-rw-r--r--nix/libstore/build.cc43
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/nix/libstore/build.cc b/nix/libstore/build.cc
index 20d83fea4a..4f486f0822 100644
--- a/nix/libstore/build.cc
+++ b/nix/libstore/build.cc
@@ -1621,6 +1621,24 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder()
auto drvName = storePathToName(drvPath);
tmpDir = createTempDir("", "guix-build-" + drvName, false, false, 0700);
+ if (useChroot) {
+ /* Make the build directory seen by the build process a sub-directory.
+ That way, "/tmp/guix-build-foo.drv-0" is root-owned, and thus its
+ permissions cannot be changed by the build process, while
+ "/tmp/guix-build-foo.drv-0/top" is owned by the build user. This
+ cannot be done when !useChroot because then $NIX_BUILD_TOP would
+ be inaccessible to the build user by its full file name.
+
+ If the build user could make the build directory world-writable,
+ then an attacker could create in it a hardlink to a root-owned file
+ such as /etc/shadow. If 'keepFailed' is true, the daemon would
+ then chown that hardlink to the user, giving them write access to
+ that file. */
+ tmpDir += "/top";
+ if (mkdir(tmpDir.c_str(), 0700) == 1)
+ throw SysError("creating top-level build directory");
+ }
+
/* In a sandbox, for determinism, always use the same temporary
directory. */
tmpDirInSandbox = useChroot ? canonPath("/tmp", true) + "/guix-build-" + drvName + "-0" : tmpDir;
@@ -2626,20 +2644,41 @@ static void _chown(const Path & path, uid_t uid, gid_t gid)
void DerivationGoal::deleteTmpDir(bool force)
{
if (tmpDir != "") {
+ // When useChroot is true, tmpDir looks like
+ // "/tmp/guix-build-foo.drv-0/top". Its parent is root-owned.
+ string top;
+ if (useChroot) {
+ if (baseNameOf(tmpDir) != "top") abort();
+ top = dirOf(tmpDir);
+ } else top = tmpDir;
+
if (settings.keepFailed && !force) {
printMsg(lvlError,
format("note: keeping build directory `%2%'")
- % drvPath % tmpDir);
+ % drvPath % top);
chmod(tmpDir.c_str(), 0755);
+
// Change the ownership if clientUid is set. Never change the
// ownership or the group to "root" for security reasons.
if (settings.clientUid != (uid_t) -1 && settings.clientUid != 0) {
_chown(tmpDir, settings.clientUid,
settings.clientGid != 0 ? settings.clientGid : -1);
+
+ if (top != tmpDir) {
+ // Rename tmpDir to its parent, with an intermediate step.
+ string pivot = top + ".pivot";
+ if (rename(top.c_str(), pivot.c_str()) == -1)
+ throw SysError("pivoting failed build tree");
+ if (rename((pivot + "/top").c_str(), top.c_str()) == -1)
+ throw SysError("renaming failed build tree");
+ rmdir(pivot.c_str());
+ }
}
}
- else
+ else {
deletePath(tmpDir);
+ if (top != tmpDir) rmdir(dirOf(tmpDir).c_str());
+ }
tmpDir = "";
}
}