Hi,
While debugging some code, I found that a setuid program could regain
root after dropping root if the program used capabilities. (I tested
this on 2.6.14 and 2.6.9.) Is this the expected behavior? Here's a
short test case:
/* chown root this program, suid it, and run it as non-root */
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/capability.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
cap_set_proc(cap_from_text("all-eip")); /* drop all caps */
setuid(getuid()); /* drop root. this call succeeds */
setuid(0); /* this should fail! but doesn't */
printf("%d\n", geteuid()); /* we regained root. prints 0 */
return 0;
}
(If we don't use capabilities at all, and take out the cap_set_proc
line, then the program behaves as expected, and doesn't allow us to
regain root.)
--David
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