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run: Handle unknown syscalls as intended
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The error-handling here was

    if (r < 0 && r == -EFAULT)

but Alex says it was almost certainly intended to be

    if (r < 0 && r != -EFAULT)

so that syscalls not known to libseccomp are not a fatal error.

Instead of literally making that change, emit a debug message on -EFAULT
so we can see what is going on.

This temporarily weakens our defence against CVE-2021-41133
(GHSA-67h7-w3jq-vh4q) in order to avoid regressions: if the installed
version of libseccomp does not know about the recently-added syscalls,
but the kernel does, then we will not prevent non-native executables
from using those syscalls.

Resolves: #4458
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
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smcv authored and alexlarsson committed Oct 8, 2021
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17 changes: 15 additions & 2 deletions common/flatpak-run.c
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Expand Up @@ -3073,7 +3073,16 @@ setup_seccomp (FlatpakBwrap *bwrap,
r = seccomp_rule_add (seccomp, SCMP_ACT_ERRNO (errnum), scall, 1, *syscall_blocklist[i].arg);
else
r = seccomp_rule_add (seccomp, SCMP_ACT_ERRNO (errnum), scall, 0);
if (r < 0 && r == -EFAULT /* unknown syscall */)

/* EFAULT means "internal libseccomp error", but in practice we get
* this for syscall numbers added via flatpak-syscalls-private.h
* when trying to filter them on a non-native architecture, because
* libseccomp cannot map the syscall number to a name and back to a
* number for the non-native architecture. */
if (r == -EFAULT)
flatpak_debug2 ("Unable to block syscall %d: syscall not known to libseccomp?",
scall);
else if (r < 0)
return flatpak_fail_error (error, FLATPAK_ERROR_SETUP_FAILED, _("Failed to block syscall %d"), scall);
}

Expand All @@ -3091,7 +3100,11 @@ setup_seccomp (FlatpakBwrap *bwrap,
else
r = seccomp_rule_add (seccomp, SCMP_ACT_ERRNO (errnum), scall, 0);

if (r < 0 && r == -EFAULT /* unknown syscall */)
/* See above for the meaning of EFAULT. */
if (errno == EFAULT)
flatpak_debug2 ("Unable to block syscall %d: syscall not known to libseccomp?",
scall);
else if (r < 0)
return flatpak_fail_error (error, FLATPAK_ERROR_SETUP_FAILED, _("Failed to block syscall %d"), scall);
}
}
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