Bug 889284 (CVE-2022-47952) – <app-containers/lxc-5.0.2: file existence disclosure

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: IN_PROGRESS ---

[Description John Helmert III 2023-01-01 15:54:05 UTC]

CVE-2022-47952 (https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/0b83d71c2c8f3bac9503f894cd84584f79258bb3/lxc.spec.in#L274):
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/0b83d71c2c8f3bac9503f894cd84584f79258bb3/src/lxc/cmd/lxc_user_nic.c#L1085-L1104
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1783591/comments/45

lxc-user-nic in lxc through 5.0.1 is installed setuid root, and may allow local users to infer whether any file exists, even within a protected directory tree, because "Failed to open" often indicates that a file does not exist, whereas "does not refer to a network namespace path" often indicates that a file exists. NOTE: this is different from CVE-2018-6556 because the CVE-2018-6556 fix design was based on the premise that "we will report back to the user that the open() failed but the user has no way of knowing why it failed"; however, in many realistic cases, there are no plausible reasons for failing except that the file does not exist.

As usual with this character, there's no reference to an upstream
report.

[Comment 1 John Helmert III 2023-01-01 20:25:56 UTC]

The guy apparently made a PR upstream, copy-pasting the CVE description: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/4245

I doubt upstream will find this desirable, seeing as he's only commented out some output functions and hasn't tried to fix the CI issues.

[Comment 2 Joonas Niilola 2023-01-21 13:50:45 UTC]

https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxc-5-0-2-lts-has-been-released/16210

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/app-containers/lxc?id=c2c4be8ee254b45ac05633a14fec9cff88c21ce9

[Comment 3 John Helmert III 2023-01-23 03:54:41 UTC]

Thanks, please stabilize when ready.