As soon as the initial executable in the container is executed as a non root user,
permitted and effective capabilities are dropped. Drop them earlier than this, so
that they are dropped before executing the file. The main effect of this is that
if `CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE` is set (the default) the user will not be able to execute
files they do not have permission to execute, which previously they could.
The old behaviour was somewhat surprising and the new one is definitely correct,
but it is not in any meaningful way exploitable, and I do not think it is
necessary to backport this fix. It is unlikely to have any negative effects as
almost all executables have world execute permission anyway.
Use the bounding set not the effective set as the canonical set of capabilities, as
effective will now vary.
Signed-off-by: Justin Cormack <justin.cormack@docker.com>
Currently the default seccomp profile is fixed. This changes it
so that it varies depending on the Linux capabilities selected with
the --cap-add and --cap-drop options. Without this, if a user adds
privileges, eg to allow ptrace with --cap-add sys_ptrace then still
cannot actually use ptrace as it is still blocked by seccomp, so
they will probably disable seccomp or use --privileged. With this
change the syscalls that are needed for the capability are also
allowed by the seccomp profile based on the selected capabilities.
While this patch makes it easier to do things with for example
cap_sys_admin enabled, as it will now allow creating new namespaces
and use of mount, it still allows less than --cap-add cap_sys_admin
--security-opt seccomp:unconfined would have previously. It is not
recommended that users run containers with cap_sys_admin as this does
give full access to the host machine.
It also cleans up some architecture specific system calls to be
only selected when needed.
Signed-off-by: Justin Cormack <justin.cormack@docker.com>
