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SubjectRe: overlayfs access checks on underlying layers
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:14 PM Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:

> Possibly I misunderstood you, but I don't think we want to copy-up on
> permission denial, as that would still allow the mounter to read/write
> special files or execute regular files to which it would normally be
> denied access, because the copy would inherit the context specified by
> the mounter in the context mount case. It still represents an
> escalation of privilege for the mounter. In contrast, the copy-up on
> write behavior does not allow the mounter to do anything it could not do
> already (i.e. read from the lower, write to the upper).

Let's get this straight: when file is copied up, it inherits label
from context=, not from label of lower file?

Next question: permission to change metadata is tied to permission to
open? Is it possible that open is denied, but metadata can be
changed?

DAC model allows this: metadata change is tied to ownership, not mode
bits. And different capability flag.

If the same is true for MAC, then the pre-v4.20-rc1 is already
susceptible to the privilege escalation you describe, right?

Thanks,
Miklos

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