9pfs: prevent opening special files (CVE-2023-2861)

The 9p protocol does not specifically define how server shall behave when
client tries to open a special file, however from security POV it does
make sense for 9p server to prohibit opening any special file on host side
in general. A sane Linux 9p client for instance would never attempt to
open a special file on host side, it would always handle those exclusively
on its guest side. A malicious client however could potentially escape
from the exported 9p tree by creating and opening a device file on host
side.

With QEMU this could only be exploited in the following unsafe setups:

  - Running QEMU binary as root AND 9p 'local' fs driver AND 'passthrough'
    security model.

or

  - Using 9p 'proxy' fs driver (which is running its helper daemon as
    root).

These setups were already discouraged for safety reasons before,
however for obvious reasons we are now tightening behaviour on this.

Fixes: CVE-2023-2861
Reported-by: Yanwu Shen <ywsPlz@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jietao Xiao <shawtao1125@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jinku Li <jkli@xidian.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Wenbo Shen <shenwenbo@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Message-Id: <E1q6w7r-0000Q0-NM@lizzy.crudebyte.com>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c b/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
index 5cafcd7703..d9511f429c 100644
--- a/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
+++ b/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include "qemu/xattr.h"
 #include "9p-iov-marshal.h"
 #include "hw/9pfs/9p-proxy.h"
+#include "hw/9pfs/9p-util.h"
 #include "fsdev/9p-iov-marshal.h"
 
 #define PROGNAME "virtfs-proxy-helper"
@@ -339,6 +340,28 @@ static void resetugid(int suid, int sgid)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Open regular file or directory. Attempts to open any special file are
+ * rejected.
+ *
+ * returns file descriptor or -1 on error
+ */
+static int open_regular(const char *pathname, int flags, mode_t mode)
+{
+    int fd;
+
+    fd = open(pathname, flags, mode);
+    if (fd < 0) {
+        return fd;
+    }
+
+    if (close_if_special_file(fd) < 0) {
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    return fd;
+}
+
+/*
  * send response in two parts
  * 1) ProxyHeader
  * 2) Response or error status
@@ -682,7 +705,7 @@ static int do_create(struct iovec *iovec)
     if (ret < 0) {
         goto unmarshal_err_out;
     }
-    ret = open(path.data, flags, mode);
+    ret = open_regular(path.data, flags, mode);
     if (ret < 0) {
         ret = -errno;
     }
@@ -707,7 +730,7 @@ static int do_open(struct iovec *iovec)
     if (ret < 0) {
         goto err_out;
     }
-    ret = open(path.data, flags);
+    ret = open_regular(path.data, flags, 0);
     if (ret < 0) {
         ret = -errno;
     }