+/**
+ * @brief Determine if the given path might refer to an (unsafe) hard link.
+ *
+ * @param path
+ * The path to test.
+ *
+ * @return true if we are certain that @c path does not refer to a hard
+ * link, and false otherwise. In case of error, false is returned,
+ * because we are not sure that @c path is not a hard link.
+ */
+bool is_hardlink_safe(const char* path) {
+ if (path == NULL) {
+ return false;
+ }
+ struct stat s;
+ int result = lstat(path, &s);
+ if (result == 0) {
+ return (s.st_nlink == 1 || S_ISDIR(s.st_mode));
+ }
+ else {
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
+
/**
* @brief Determine whether or not the given path is a regular file.
*
ACL. */
acl_entry_t new_entry;
- /* We allocate memory here that we should release! */
+ /* The acl_create_entry() function can allocate new memory and/or
+ * change the location of the ACL structure entirely. When that
+ * happens, the value pointed to by aclp is updated, which means
+ * that a new acl_t gets "passed out" to our caller, eventually to
+ * be fed to acl_free(). In other words, we should still be freeing
+ * the right thing, even if the value pointed to by aclp changes.
+ */
int c_result = acl_create_entry(aclp, &new_entry);
if (c_result == ACL_ERROR) {
perror("acl_set_entry (acl_create_entry)");
* @brief Determine the number of entries in the given ACL.
*
* @param acl
- * A pointer to an @c acl_t structure.
+ * The ACL to inspect.
*
* @return Either the non-negative number of entries in @c acl, or
* @c ACL_ERROR on error.
*/
-int acl_entry_count(acl_t* acl) {
+int acl_entry_count(acl_t acl) {
acl_entry_t entry;
int entry_count = 0;
- int result = acl_get_entry(*acl, ACL_FIRST_ENTRY, &entry);
+ int result = acl_get_entry(acl, ACL_FIRST_ENTRY, &entry);
while (result == ACL_SUCCESS) {
entry_count++;
- result = acl_get_entry(*acl, ACL_NEXT_ENTRY, &entry);
+ result = acl_get_entry(acl, ACL_NEXT_ENTRY, &entry);
}
if (result == ACL_ERROR) {
* An ACL is minimal if it has fewer than four entries.
*
* @param acl
- * A pointer to an acl_t structure.
+ * The ACL whose minimality is in question.
*
* @return
* - @c ACL_SUCCESS - @c acl is minimal
* - @c ACL_FAILURE - @c acl is not minimal
* - @c ACL_ERROR - Unexpected library error
*/
-int acl_is_minimal(acl_t* acl) {
+int acl_is_minimal(acl_t acl) {
int ec = acl_entry_count(acl);
/**
- * @brief Determine whether the given path has an ACL whose mask
- * denies execute.
+ * @brief Determine whether the given ACL's mask denies execute.
*
- * @param path
- * The path to check.
+ * @param acl
+ * The ACL whose mask we want to check.
*
* @return
- * - @c ACL_SUCCESS - @c path has a mask which denies execute.
- * - @c ACL_FAILURE - The ACL for @c path does not deny execute,
- * or @c path has no extended ACL at all.
+ * - @c ACL_SUCCESS - The @c acl has a mask which denies execute.
+ * - @c ACL_FAILURE - The @c acl has a mask which does not deny execute.
* - @c ACL_ERROR - Unexpected library error.
*/
-int acl_execute_masked(const char* path) {
-
- acl_t acl = acl_get_file(path, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
-
- if (acl == (acl_t)NULL) {
- perror("acl_execute_masked (acl_get_file)");
- return ACL_ERROR;
- }
-
- /* Our return value. */
- int result = ACL_FAILURE;
+int acl_execute_masked(acl_t acl) {
acl_entry_t entry;
int ge_result = acl_get_entry(acl, ACL_FIRST_ENTRY, &entry);
if (tag_result == ACL_ERROR) {
perror("acl_execute_masked (acl_get_tag_type)");
- result = ACL_ERROR;
- goto cleanup;
+ return ACL_ERROR;
}
if (tag == ACL_MASK) {
int ps_result = acl_get_permset(entry, &permset);
if (ps_result == ACL_ERROR) {
perror("acl_execute_masked (acl_get_permset)");
- result = ACL_ERROR;
- goto cleanup;
+ return ACL_ERROR;
}
int gp_result = acl_get_perm(permset, ACL_EXECUTE);
if (gp_result == ACL_ERROR) {
perror("acl_execute_masked (acl_get_perm)");
- result = ACL_ERROR;
- goto cleanup;
+ return ACL_ERROR;
}
if (gp_result == ACL_FAILURE) {
ge_result = acl_get_entry(acl, ACL_NEXT_ENTRY, &entry);
}
- cleanup:
- acl_free(acl);
- return result;
+ return ACL_FAILURE;
}
/* Our return value. */
int result = ACL_FAILURE;
- if (acl_is_minimal(&acl)) {
+ if (acl_is_minimal(acl)) {
mode_t mode = get_mode(path);
if (mode & (S_IXUSR | S_IXOTH | S_IXGRP)) {
result = ACL_SUCCESS;
if (gp_result == ACL_SUCCESS) {
/* Only return ACL_SUCCESS if this execute bit is not masked. */
- if (acl_execute_masked(path) != ACL_SUCCESS) {
+ if (acl_execute_masked(acl) != ACL_SUCCESS) {
result = ACL_SUCCESS;
goto cleanup;
}
/**
- * @brief Inherit the default ACL from @c parent to @c path.
- *
- * The @c parent parameter does not necessarily need to be the parent
- * of @c path, although that will usually be the case. This overwrites
- * any existing default ACL on @c path.
+ * @brief Set @c acl as the default ACL on @c path if it's a directory.
*
- * @param parent
- * The parent directory whose ACL we want to inherit.
+ * This overwrites any existing default ACL on @c path. If no default
+ * ACL exists, then one is created. If @c path is not a directory, we
+ * return ACL_FAILURE but no error is raised.
*
* @param path
- * The target directory whose ACL we wish to overwrite (or create).
+ * The target directory whose ACL we wish to replace or create.
+ *
+ * @param acl
+ * The ACL to set as default on @c path.
*
* @return
- * - @c ACL_SUCCESS - The default ACL was inherited successfully.
- * - @c ACL_FAILURE - Either @c parent or @c path is not a directory.
+ * - @c ACL_SUCCESS - The default ACL was assigned successfully.
+ * - @c ACL_FAILURE - If @c path is not a directory.
* - @c ACL_ERROR - Unexpected library error.
*/
-int inherit_default_acl(const char* path, const char* parent) {
-
- /* Our return value. */
- int result = ACL_SUCCESS;
+int assign_default_acl(const char* path, acl_t acl) {
if (path == NULL) {
errno = ENOENT;
return ACL_ERROR;
}
- if (!is_directory(path) || !is_directory(parent)) {
+ if (!is_directory(path)) {
return ACL_FAILURE;
}
- acl_t parent_acl = acl_get_file(parent, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
- if (parent_acl == (acl_t)NULL) {
- perror("inherit_default_acl (acl_get_file)");
- return ACL_ERROR;
- }
-
- acl_t path_acl = acl_dup(parent_acl);
+ /* Our return value; success unless something bad happens. */
+ int result = ACL_SUCCESS;
+ acl_t path_acl = acl_dup(acl);
if (path_acl == (acl_t)NULL) {
perror("inherit_default_acl (acl_dup)");
- acl_free(parent_acl);
- return ACL_ERROR;
+ return ACL_ERROR; /* Nothing to clean up in this case. */
}
int sf_result = acl_set_file(path, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT, path_acl);
if (sf_result == -1) {
perror("inherit_default_acl (acl_set_file)");
result = ACL_ERROR;
- goto cleanup;
}
- cleanup:
acl_free(path_acl);
return result;
}
return ACL_ERROR;
}
+ /* Refuse to operate on hard links, which can be abused by an
+ * attacker to trick us into changing the ACL on a file we didn't
+ * intend to; namely the "target" of the hard link. To truly prevent
+ * that sort of mischief, we should be using file descriptors for
+ * the target and its parent directory. Then modulo a tiny race
+ * condition, we would be sure that "path" and "parent" don't change
+ * their nature between the time that we test them and when we
+ * utilize them. For contrast, the same attacker is free to replace
+ * "path" with a hard link after is_hardlink_safe() has returned
+ * "true" below.
+ *
+ * Unfortunately, our API is lacking in this area. For example,
+ * acl_set_fd() is only capable of setting the ACL_TYPE_ACCESS list,
+ * and not the ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT. Apparently the only way to operate
+ * on default ACLs is through the path name, which is inherently
+ * unreliable since the acl_*_file() calls themselves might follow
+ * links (both hard and symbolic).
+ *
+ * Some improvement could still be made by using descriptors where
+ * possible -- this would shrink the exploit window -- but for now
+ * we use a naive implementation that only keeps honest men honest.
+ */
+ if (!is_hardlink_safe(path)) {
+ return ACL_FAILURE;
+ }
+
if (!is_regular_file(path) && !is_directory(path)) {
return ACL_FAILURE;
}
}
/* If it's a directory, inherit the parent's default. */
- int inherit_result = inherit_default_acl(path, parent);
+ int inherit_result = assign_default_acl(path, defacl);
if (inherit_result == ACL_ERROR) {
perror("apply_default_acl (inherit_acls)");
result = ACL_ERROR;
}
}
- /* Finally, add the permset to the access ACL. */
+ /* Finally, add the permset to the access ACL. It's actually
+ * important that we pass in the address of "acl" here, and not
+ * "acl" itself. Why? The call to acl_create_entry() within
+ * acl_set_entry() can allocate new memory for the entry.
+ * Sometimes that can be done in-place, in which case everything
+ * is cool and the new memory gets released when we call
+ * acl_free(acl).
+ *
+ * But occasionally, the whole ACL structure will have to be moved
+ * in order to allocate the extra space. When that happens,
+ * acl_create_entry() modifies the pointer it was passed (in this
+ * case, &acl) to point to the new location. We want to call
+ * acl_free() on the new location, and since acl_free() gets
+ * called right here, we need acl_create_entry() to update the
+ * value of "acl". To do that, it needs the address of "acl".
+ */
int set_result = acl_set_entry(&acl, entry);
if (set_result == ACL_ERROR) {
perror("apply_default_acl (acl_set_entry)");
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