[DSE-Dev] [libsemanage] Also check for the uppoer bound on user ids in /etc/login.defs

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Tue Jan 6 15:09:10 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 08:51 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06 2009, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> 
> > Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 05 2009, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>>> From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta at debian.org>
> >>>>
> >>>> Some non-Debian packages (like qmail, shudder) create users not below
> >>>> MIN_UID, but above MAX_UID, in /etc/login.defs (non-system users are
> >>>> supposed to have uids between MIN_UID and MAX_UID.
> >>>>
> >>>> genhomedircon.c:gethomedirs() checks pwent.pw_uid against MIN_UID in
> >>>> /etc/login.defs to exclude system users from generating homedir
> >>>> contexts. But unfortunately it does not check it against MAX_UID
> >>>> setting from the same file.
> >>>>
> >>>> This gets us lines like the following in the
> >>>> contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs file:
> >>>>
> >>>> ,----
> >>>> |  #
> >>>> |  # Home Context for user user_u
> >>>> |  #
> >>>> |  /var/qmail/[^/]*/.+     user_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0
> >>>> |  /var/qmail/[^/]*/\.ssh(/.*)?    user_u:object_r:user_home_ssh_t:s0
> >>>> |  /var/qmail/[^/]*/\.gnupg(/.+)?  user_u:object_r:user_gpg_secret_t:s0
> >>>> |  /var/qmail/[^/]*        -d      user_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0
> >>>> |  /var/qmail/lost\+found/.*       <<none>>
> >>>> |  /var/qmail      -d      system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0
> >>>> |  /var/qmail/\.journal    <<none>>
> >>>> |  /var/qmail/lost\+found  -d      system_u:object_r:lost_found_t:s0
> >>>> |  /tmp/gconfd-.*  -d      user_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0
> >>>> `----
> >>>>
> >>>> This commit adds checking uid value againt MAX_UID too.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta at debian.org>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  src/genhomedircon.c |   22 ++++++++++++++++++----
> >>>>  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/src/genhomedircon.c b/src/genhomedircon.c
> >>>> index ce15807..a5306d7 100644
> >>>> --- a/src/genhomedircon.c
> >>>> +++ b/src/genhomedircon.c
> >>>> @@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ static semanage_list_t *get_home_dirs(genhomedircon_settings_t * s)
> >>>>  	char *rbuf = NULL;
> >>>>  	char *path = NULL;
> >>>>  	long rbuflen;
> >>>> -	uid_t temp, minuid = 0;
> >>>> -	int minuid_set = 0;
> >>>> +	uid_t temp, minuid = 0, maxuid = 0;
> >>>> +	int minuid_set = 0, maxuid_set = 0;
> >>>>  	struct passwd pwstorage, *pwbuf;
> >>>>  	struct stat buf;
> >>>>  	int retval;
> >>>> @@ -270,6 +270,16 @@ static semanage_list_t *get_home_dirs(genhomedircon_settings_t * s)
> >>>>  	}
> >>>>  	free(path);
> >>>>  	path = NULL;
> >>>> +	path = semanage_findval(PATH_ETC_LOGIN_DEFS, "UID_MAX", NULL);
> >>>> +	if (path && *path) {
> >>>> +		temp = atoi(path);
> >>>> +		if (!maxuid_set || temp > maxuid) {
> >>>> +			maxuid = temp;
> >>>> +			maxuid_set = 1;
> >>>> +		}
> >>>> +	}
> >>>> +	free(path);
> >>>> +	path = NULL;
> >>>>  
> >>>>  	path = semanage_findval(PATH_ETC_LIBUSER, "LU_UIDNUMBER", "=");
> >>>>  	if (path && *path) {
> >>>> @@ -286,6 +296,10 @@ static semanage_list_t *get_home_dirs(genhomedircon_settings_t * s)
> >>>>  		minuid = 500;
> >>>>  		minuid_set = 1;
> >>>>  	}
> >>>> +	if (!maxuid_set) {
> >>>> +		maxuid = 60000;
> >>>> +		maxuid_set = 1;
> >>>> +	}
> >>>>  
> >>>>  	rbuflen = sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX);
> >>>>  	if (rbuflen <= 0)
> >>>> @@ -295,7 +309,7 @@ static semanage_list_t *get_home_dirs(genhomedircon_settings_t * s)
> >>>>  		goto fail;
> >>>>  	setpwent();
> >>>>  	while ((retval = getpwent_r(&pwstorage, rbuf, rbuflen, &pwbuf)) == 0) {
> >>>> -		if (pwbuf->pw_uid < minuid)
> >>>> +		if (pwbuf->pw_uid < minuid || pwbuf->pw_uid > maxuid)
> >>>>  			continue;
> >>>>  		if (!semanage_list_find(shells, pwbuf->pw_shell))
> >>>>  			continue;
> >>>> @@ -322,7 +336,7 @@ static semanage_list_t *get_home_dirs(genhomedircon_settings_t * s)
> >>>>  
> >>>>  			/* NOTE: old genhomedircon printed a warning on match */
> >>>>  			if (hand.matched) {
> >>>> -				WARN(s->h_semanage, "%s homedir %s or its parent directory conflicts with a file context already specified in the policy.  This usually indicates an incorrectly defined system account.  If it is a system account please make sure its uid is less than %u or its login shell is /sbin/nologin.", pwbuf->pw_name, pwbuf->pw_dir, minuid);
> >>>> +			  WARN(s->h_semanage, "%s homedir %s or its parent directory conflicts with a file context already specified in the policy.  This usually indicates an incorrectly defined system account.  If it is a system account please make sure its uid is less than %u or greater than %u or its login shell is /sbin/nologin.", pwbuf->pw_name, pwbuf->pw_dir, minuid, maxuid);
> >>>>  			} else {
> >>>>  				if (semanage_list_push(&homedir_list, path))
> >>>>  					goto fail;
> >>> I think the default MAX_UID is not big enough.
> >>>
> >>> Shouldn't it be MAXINT?
> >> 
> >>         Not unless I am misunderstanding the logic here. The way I see
> >>  it, the code below:
> >> ,----
> >> | while ((retval = getpwent_r(&pwstorage, rbuf, rbuflen, &pwbuf)) == 0) {
> >> |         if (pwbuf->pw_uid < minuid || pwbuf->pw_uid > maxuid)
> >> |                 continue;
> >> |         if (!semanage_list_find(shells, pwbuf->pw_shell))
> >> |                 continue;
> >> |         if (strcmp(pwbuf->pw_dir, "/") == 0)
> >> |                 continue;
> >> |         if (semanage_str_count(pwbuf->pw_dir, '/') <= 1)
> >> |                 continue;
> >> |         if (!(path = strdup(pwbuf->pw_dir))) {
> >> |                 break;
> >> |         }
> >> |    /* DO STUFF HERE */
> >> | }
> >> `----
> >> 
> >>         Does nothing iff: pw_uid < minuid || pw_uid > maxuid, so it
> >>  only does things if the UID is in the range legal for non-system users;
> >>  and the UID range for system users is UID_MIN < uid < UID_MAX.
> >> 
> >>         If you change the upper bound to max int, then we will create
> >>  the entries for UIDs in the range above 60000 -- which is where the
> >>  bletcherous qmail install script places the qmail uid.
> >> 
> >>         The current behaviour, but not checking the upper bound of the
> >>  acceptable user range would be equivalent to the raising the upper
> >>  bound to INT_MAX; and indeed, would make this patch redundant.
> >> 
> >>         From login.defs(5):
> >> ,----
> >> |        UID_MAX (number), UID_MIN (number)
> >> |            Range of user IDs used for the creation of regular users by
> >> |            useradd or newusers.
> >> `----
> >> 
> >>         Therefore I think that the right thing to do would be to check
> >>  for both the upper and the lower bound, not just the lower bound
> >>  check, which is all we do now.
> >> 
> >>         manoj
> > my point being, if I have a legitimate UID > 60000 for a real user and
> > do not define UID_MAX, My account will not work.
> >
> > I do not have a problem with checking UID_MAX, just that the default
> > should be much higer then 60000.
> 
>         I just went with the Debian policy default value; 60000 is the
>  upper limit of uid's on Debian (and probably most Debian derivative)
>  machines, and UID's lager than that are reserved by policy for Debian
>  packages to use (after discussion on the development mailing lists).

The same appears to be true in Fedora; UID_MAX is set to 60000 by
default in /etc/login.defs there as well.

>         Having said that, I have no objection to making the default max
>  uid a preprocessor constant, which can be tweaked by the
>  distributions. Should I send in an updated patch?

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency




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