Re: Linux peer_cred Mischmasch

[Florian Weimer <fweimer () redhat com>]

On 07/22/2014 12:15 PM, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
> While maybe_add_creds() (via SOCK_PASSCRED) and scm_send()
> (via unix_{stream,dgram}_sendmsg()) use the real UID,
>
> cred_to_ucred() (via SO_PEERCRED) passes the EUID (this time
> also kuid_munged()).

There should also be a discrepancy regarding when the credentials are 
captured (time of send for SOCK_PASSCRED, time of socket creation for 
SO_PEERCRED).  The latter is required because privileged processes 
assume that they can safely write to stderr, so picking the current 
process credentials may well introduce vulnerabilities.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security