[patch 1/2] selinux: add executable stack check

From: Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
Date: Tue Jun 21 2005 - 20:54:03 EST



This patch adds an execstack permission check that controls the
ability to make the main process stack executable so that attempts to
make the stack executable can still be prevented even if the process is
allowed the existing execmem permission in order to e.g. perform runtime
code generation. Note that this does not yet address thread stacks.
Note also that unlike the execmem check, the execstack check is only
applied on mprotect calls, not mmap calls, as the current
security_file_mmap hook is not passed the necessary information
presently.

The original author of the code that makes the distinction of the stack
region, is Ingo Molnar, who wrote it within his patch for
/proc/<pid>/maps markers.
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110719881508591&w=2)

The patches also can be found at:
http://pearls.tuxedo-es.org/patches/selinux/policy-execstack.patch
http://pearls.tuxedo-es.org/patches/selinux/kernel-execstack.patch

policy-execstack.patch is the patch that needs to be applied to the policy in
order to support the execstack permission and exclude it
from general_domain_access within macros/core_macros.te.

kernel-execstack.patch adds such permission to the SELinux code within
the kernel and adds the proper permission check to the selinux_file_mprotect() hook.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro <lorenzo@xxxxxxx>
---

security/selinux/hooks.c | 10 ++++++++++
security/selinux/include/av_perm_to_string.h | 1 +
security/selinux/include/av_permissions.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff -puN security/selinux/hooks.c~selinux-kernel-execstack security/selinux/hooks.c
--- linux-2.6.11/security/selinux/hooks.c~selinux-kernel-execstack 2005-06-21 13:26:34.572259232 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.11-lorenzo/security/selinux/hooks.c 2005-06-21 13:26:34.623251480 +0200
@@ -2491,6 +2491,16 @@ static int selinux_file_mprotect(struct
if (rc)
return rc;
}
+ if (!vma->vm_file && (prot & PROT_EXEC) &&
+ vma->vm_start <= vma->vm_mm->start_stack &&
+ vma->vm_end >= vma->vm_mm->start_stack) {
+ /* Attempt to make the process stack executable.
+ * This has an additional execstack check.
+ */
+ rc = task_has_perm(current, current, PROCESS__EXECSTACK);
+ if (rc)
+ return rc;
+ }
#endif

return file_map_prot_check(vma->vm_file, prot, vma->vm_flags&VM_SHARED);
diff -puN security/selinux/include/av_permissions.h~selinux-kernel-execstack security/selinux/include/av_permissions.h
--- linux-2.6.11/security/selinux/include/av_permissions.h~selinux-kernel-execstack 2005-06-21 13:26:34.574258928 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.11-lorenzo/security/selinux/include/av_permissions.h 2005-06-21 13:26:34.592256192 +0200
@@ -465,6 +465,7 @@
#define PROCESS__DYNTRANSITION 0x00800000UL
#define PROCESS__SETCURRENT 0x01000000UL
#define PROCESS__EXECMEM 0x02000000UL
+#define PROCESS__EXECSTACK 0x04000000UL

#define IPC__CREATE 0x00000001UL
#define IPC__DESTROY 0x00000002UL
diff -puN security/selinux/include/av_perm_to_string.h~selinux-kernel-execstack security/selinux/include/av_perm_to_string.h
--- linux-2.6.11/security/selinux/include/av_perm_to_string.h~selinux-kernel-execstack 2005-06-21 13:26:34.576258624 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.11-lorenzo/security/selinux/include/av_perm_to_string.h 2005-06-21 13:26:34.598255280 +0200
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
S_(SECCLASS_PROCESS, PROCESS__DYNTRANSITION, "dyntransition")
S_(SECCLASS_PROCESS, PROCESS__SETCURRENT, "setcurrent")
S_(SECCLASS_PROCESS, PROCESS__EXECMEM, "execmem")
+ S_(SECCLASS_PROCESS, PROCESS__EXECSTACK, "execstack")
S_(SECCLASS_MSGQ, MSGQ__ENQUEUE, "enqueue")
S_(SECCLASS_MSG, MSG__SEND, "send")
S_(SECCLASS_MSG, MSG__RECEIVE, "receive")
_
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