[libvirt] [PATCH] CVE-2015-5313: storage: don't allow '/' in filesystem volume names

[Eric Blake]

The libvirt file system storage driver determines what file to
act on by concatenating the pool location with the volume name.
If a user is able to pick names like "../../../etc/passwd", then
they can escape the bounds of the pool.  For that matter,
virStoragePoolListVolumes() doesn't descend into subdirectories,
so a user really shouldn't use a name with a slash.

Normally, only privileged users can coerce libvirt into creating
or opening existing files using the virStorageVol APIs; and such
users already have full privilege to create any domain XML (so it
is not an escalation of privilege).  But in the case of
fine-grained ACLs, it is feasible that a user can be granted
storage_vol:create but not domain:write, and it violates
assumptions if such a user can abuse libvirt to access files
outside of the storage pool.

Therefore, prevent all use of volume names that contain "/",
whether or not such a name is actually attempting to escape the
pool.

This changes things from:

$ virsh vol-create-as default ../../../../../../etc/haha --capacity 128
Vol ../../../../../../etc/haha created
$ rm /etc/haha

to:

$ virsh vol-create-as default ../../../../../../etc/haha --capacity 128
error: Failed to create vol ../../../../../../etc/haha
error: Requested operation is not valid: volume name '../../../../../../etc/haha' cannot contain '/'

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
---

This has been reviewed on the libvirt security list, where it
was assigned a CVE.  Fortunately, this could only be used for
an escalation of privileges under fine-grained ACLs (which is
not an out-of-the-box config).

I will go ahead and push this to master as well as all the
active maint branches back to the introduction of ACLs.

 src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c b/src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c
index c71c724..bb3b62a 100644
--- a/src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c
+++ b/src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * storage_backend_fs.c: storage backend for FS and directory handling
  *
- * Copyright (C) 2007-2014 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2007-2015 Red Hat, Inc.
  * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Daniel P. Berrange
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -1057,6 +1057,14 @@ virStorageBackendFileSystemVolCreate(virConnectPtr conn ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
     else
         vol->type = VIR_STORAGE_VOL_FILE;

+    /* Volumes within a directory pools are not recursive; do not
+     * allow escape to ../ or a subdir */
+    if (strchr(vol->name, '/')) {
+        virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_INVALID,
+                       _("volume name '%s' cannot contain '/'"), vol->name);
+        return -1;
+    }
+
     VIR_FREE(vol->target.path);
     if (virAsprintf(&vol->target.path, "%s/%s",
                     pool->def->target.path,
-- 
2.4.3