The implementation for NETLINK_FIREWALL and NETLINK_IP6_FW protocols
was removed from the kernel in commit
d16cf20e2f2f13411eece7f7fb72c17d141c4a84 ("netfilter: remove ip_queue
support") circa Linux 3.5. Consequently, kernels >= 3.5 should never
perform permission checks on these classes although they remained
defined in the SELinux kernel classmap until the netlink classes
were updated by
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6c6d2e9bde1c1c87a7ead806f8f5e2181d41a652
circa Linux v4.2.
Removing these class definitions would break legacy userspace that relies
upon stable values for the userspace security class definitions since it
will perturb those values by removing classes that preceded them. dbus-daemon
in particular is known to break if its dbus class changes at runtime,
which could occur upon a policy reload that removes these classes.
Fixing this requires ensuring that dbus-daemon looks up the appropriate
class value on each use or upon policy reload, via userspace interfaces
such as selinux_check_access(), string_to_security_class(), and/or
selinux_set_callback(SELINUX_CB_POLICYLOAD, ...) with a callback function
that remaps the class value if needed. Other userspace policy enforcers
are believed to have been updated in recent versions but older versions
may break upon such a change.
Hence, this change renames these classes with obsolete_ prefixes and
removes all rules referencing them from refpolicy, thereby preserving
the class numbering for subsequent classes while making it clear that
these classses are no longer meaningful for modern kernels.
This change does however create a potential compatibility break for
kernels < 3.5, since the policy will cease to define the kernel class
names and therefore the kernel will handle permission checks on the
class based on the handle_unknown setting in policy. For most
Linux distributions, this will default to allow and therefore avoid
breaking userspace but will fail open. For kernels < 2.6.33 (i.e.
the dynamic class/perm discovery support), the presence of a class
in policy with the same number but a different name than the kernel
class will cause the policy load to fail entirely.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Remove unused permission definitions from SELinux.
Many of these were only ever used in pre-mainline
versions of SELinux, prior to Linux 2.6.0. Some of them
were used in the legacy network or compat_net=1 checks
that were disabled by default in Linux 2.6.18 and
fully removed in Linux 2.6.30.
The corresponding classmap declarations were removed from the
mainline kernel in:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=42a9699a9fa179c0054ea3cf5ad3cc67104a6162
Permissions never used in mainline Linux:
file swapon
filesystem transition
tcp_socket { connectto newconn acceptfrom }
node enforce_dest
unix_stream_socket { newconn acceptfrom }
Legacy network checks, removed in 2.6.30:
socket { recv_msg send_msg }
node { tcp_recv tcp_send udp_recv udp_send rawip_recv rawip_send dccp_recv dccp_send }
netif { tcp_recv tcp_send udp_recv udp_send rawip_recv rawip_send dccp_recv dccp_send }
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Didn't rearrange all the kernel calls, but did add the kernel_request_load_module.
Didn't include the usbmod (doesn't exist in refpolicy at this time).
Included the generic usb device permissions because snort uses libpcap, which can also be used to monitor USB traffic, so this may be a side effect.
From the red hat bug (559861), it sounds as though snort was failing without these permissions, so it doesn't look like a dontaudit would work.
The latest revision of the labeled policy patches which enable both labeled
and unlabeled policy support for NetLabel. This revision takes into account
Chris' feedback from the first version and reduces the number of interface
calls in each domain down to two at present: one for unlabeled access, one for
NetLabel access. The older, transport layer specific interfaces, are still
present for use by third-party modules but are not used in the default policy
modules.
trunk: Use netmsg initial SID for MLS-only Netlabel packets, from Paul Moore.
This patch changes the policy to use the netmsg initial SID as the "base"
SID/context for NetLabel packets which only have MLS security attributes.
Currently we use the unlabeled initial SID which makes it very difficult to
distinquish between actual unlabeled packets and those packets which have MLS
security attributes.
Chris PeBenito
Stephen Smalley
Chris PeBenito
Jeremy Solt
Chris PeBenito