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

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:35:02AM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> A well-behaved FUSE client does not attempt to open special files with
> FUSE_OPEN because they are handled on the client side (e.g. device nodes
> are handled by client-side device drivers).
> 
> The check to prevent virtiofsd from opening special files is missing in
> a few cases, most notably FUSE_OPEN. A malicious client can cause
> virtiofsd to open a device node, potentially allowing the guest to
> escape. This can be exploited by a modified guest device driver. It is
> not exploitable from guest userspace since the guest kernel will handle
> special files inside the guest instead of sending FUSE requests.
> 
> This patch adds the missing checks to virtiofsd. This is a short-term
> solution because it does not prevent a compromised virtiofsd process
> from opening device nodes on the host.
> 
> Reported-by: Alex Xu <alex@alxu.ca>
> Fixes: CVE-2020-35517
> Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


Regards,
Daniel
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