APPLIED [OEM-6.0]: [SRU Kinetic, Lunar, OEM-6.0, OEM-6.1 0/3] CVE-2023-32629 // CVE-2023-2640

Manuel Diewald manuel.diewald at canonical.com
Fri Jul 14 15:05:12 UTC 2023


On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 05:45:13PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> [Impact]
> An unprivileged user may cause unintended xattrs to be set on the upper
> layer of overlayfs.
> 
> [Fix]
> Reverting the SAUCE patches that allow for trusted.overlay.* attributes to
> be set fixed the problem. In order to not regress issues like LP: #1531747,
> a change was added to mount with userxattr option by default when using user
> namespaces.
> 
> [Potential regression]
> overlayfs users under user namespaces may regress. Tests were done with
> docker nested on LXD and no regression was observed.
> 
> Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (3):
>   Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: overlayfs: handle idmapped mounts in
>     ovl_do_(set|remove)xattr"
>   Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: overlayfs: Skip permission checking for
>     trusted.overlayfs.* xattrs"
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: overlayfs: default to userxattr when mounted from non
>     initial user namespace
> 
>  fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 16 +++-------------
>  fs/overlayfs/super.c     | 10 ++++++++++
>  fs/xattr.c               | 36 ++++++------------------------------
>  include/linux/xattr.h    |  1 -
>  4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
> 
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Applied to linux-oem-6.0, thank you!



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