Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/29] 9pfs: local: introduce symlink-attack safe xattr helpers

[Greg Kurz]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:05:02 +0100
Jann Horn <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 02/20/2017 08:40 AM, Greg Kurz wrote:  
> >> All operations dealing with extended attributes are vulnerable to symlink
> >> attacks because they use path-based syscalls which can traverse symbolic
> >> links while walking through the dirname part of the path.
> >>
> >> The solution is to introduce helpers based on opendir_nofollow(). This
> >> calls for "at" versions of the extended attribute syscalls, which don't
> >> exist unfortunately. This patch implement them by simulating the "at"
> >> behavior with fchdir(). Since the current working directory is process
> >> wide, and we don't want to confuse another thread in QEMU, all the work
> >> is done in a separate process.  
> >
> > Can you emulate *at using /proc/fd/nnn/xyz?  
> 
> I don't know much about QEMU internals, but QEMU supports running in a
> chroot using the -chroot option, right? Does that already require procfs to be
> mounted inside the chroot?

Calling chroot() requires CAP_SYS_CHROOT and QEMU shouldn't rely on that to
provide a secure and isolated environment to run VMs.

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