[PATCH 1/1] sandbox: use sane access rights for files

Heinrich Schuchardt heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com
Wed Apr 10 10:38:28 CEST 2024


When writing an executable, allowing other users to modify it introduces
a security issue.

Generally we should avoid giving other users write access to our files by
default.

Replace chmod(777) by chmod(755) and chmod(644).

Fixes: 47f5fcfb4169 ("sandbox: Add os_jump_to_image() to run another executable")
Fixes: d9165153caea ("sandbox: add flags for open() call")
Fixes: 5c2859cdc302 ("sandbox: Allow reading/writing of RAM buffer")
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
---
 arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c b/arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c
index cbae5109e85..1cf41578010 100644
--- a/arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c
+++ b/arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ int os_open(const char *pathname, int os_flags)
 	 */
 	flags |= O_CLOEXEC;
 
-	return open(pathname, flags, 0777);
+	return open(pathname, flags, 0644);
 }
 
 int os_close(int fd)
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ int os_write_ram_buf(const char *fname)
 	struct sandbox_state *state = state_get_current();
 	int fd, ret;
 
-	fd = open(fname, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0777);
+	fd = open(fname, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0644);
 	if (fd < 0)
 		return -ENOENT;
 	ret = write(fd, state->ram_buf, state->ram_size);
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ static int make_exec(char *fname, const void *data, int size)
 	if (write(fd, data, size) < 0)
 		return -EIO;
 	close(fd);
-	if (chmod(fname, 0777))
+	if (chmod(fname, 0755))
 		return -ENOEXEC;
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.43.0



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