[Virtio-fs] [PATCH v2] virtiofsd: prevent opening of special files (CVE-2020-35517)

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 6:18 PM Greg Kurz <groug at kaod.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:35:02 +0000
> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at redhat.com> wrote:

> The patch looks pretty good to me. It just seems to be missing a change in
> lo_create():
>
>     fd = openat(parent_inode->fd, name, (fi->flags | O_CREAT) & ~O_NOFOLLOW,
>                 mode);
>
> A malicious guest could have created anything called ${name} in this directory
> before calling FUSE_CREATE and we'll open it blindly, or I'm missing something ?

Right, this seems like an omission.

Also the "& ~O_NOFOLLOW" looks like a copy-paste bug, since unlike
lo_open(), lo_create() is not opening a proc symlink.

So that should be replaced with "| O_NOFOLLOW"

Thanks,
Miklos