how to restrict a SOCK_RAW by interface

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Mon Dec 14 19:49:52 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:29 -0600, Cernak, James E (IS) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to restrict an application to using only some interfaces
> on the system. I have defined a new type and assigned the interface on
> my RHEL5.4-x64 system to the new type with semanage. The system
> indicates that the interface is now configured.
>      # semanage interface -l
>      SELinux Interface              Context
> 
>      eth1                           system_u:object_r:iface_test_t:s0
> This does restrict applications like tcpdump or wireshark from listing
> the interface that was configured.
>      # tcpdump -D
>      1.peth0
>      2.virbr0
>      3.vif0.0
>      4.eth0
>      5.xenbr0
>      6.eth2
>      7.eth3
>      8.any (Pseudo-device that captures on all interfaces)
>      9.lo
> 
> My problem comes that my application can still open eth1 and read and
> write packets to this interface.
> The application is opening a socket as SOCK_RAW then binding with a
> struct sockaddr_LL that has the ssll_ifindex field configured with the
> index of ETH1.
> How do I write a selinux policy to restrict this application from
> using some interfaces.
> 

In RHEL5 (Linux 2.6.18), you might need to enable compat_net (echo 1
> /selinux/compat_net or boot with selinux_compat_net=1 on the kernel
command line).

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency




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