linux/security
Coiby Xu edd824eb45 ima: don't clear IMA_DIGSIG flag when setting or removing non-IMA xattr
[ Upstream commit 88b4cbcf6b ]

Currently when both IMA and EVM are in fix mode, the IMA signature will
be reset to IMA hash if a program first stores IMA signature in
security.ima and then writes/removes some other security xattr for the
file.

For example, on Fedora, after booting the kernel with "ima_appraise=fix
evm=fix ima_policy=appraise_tcb" and installing rpm-plugin-ima,
installing/reinstalling a package will not make good reference IMA
signature generated. Instead IMA hash is generated,

    # getfattr -m - -d -e hex /usr/bin/bash
    # file: usr/bin/bash
    security.ima=0x0404...

This happens because when setting security.selinux, the IMA_DIGSIG flag
that had been set early was cleared. As a result, IMA hash is generated
when the file is closed.

Similarly, IMA signature can be cleared on file close after removing
security xattr like security.evm or setting/removing ACL.

Prevent replacing the IMA file signature with a file hash, by preventing
the IMA_DIGSIG flag from being reset.

Here's a minimal C reproducer which sets security.selinux as the last
step which can also replaced by removing security.evm or setting ACL,

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <sys/xattr.h>
    #include <fcntl.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <string.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>

    int main() {
        const char* file_path = "/usr/sbin/test_binary";
        const char* hex_string = "030204d33204490066306402304";
        int length = strlen(hex_string);
        char* ima_attr_value;
        int fd;

        fd = open(file_path, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0644);
        if (fd == -1) {
            perror("Error opening file");
            return 1;
        }

        ima_attr_value = (char*)malloc(length / 2 );
        for (int i = 0, j = 0; i < length; i += 2, j++) {
            sscanf(hex_string + i, "%2hhx", &ima_attr_value[j]);
        }

        if (fsetxattr(fd, "security.ima", ima_attr_value, length/2, 0) == -1) {
            perror("Error setting extended attribute");
            close(fd);
            return 1;
        }

        const char* selinux_value= "system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0";
        if (fsetxattr(fd, "security.selinux", selinux_value, strlen(selinux_value), 0) == -1) {
            perror("Error setting extended attribute");
            close(fd);
            return 1;
        }

        close(fd);

        return 0;
    }

Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-11-13 15:34:32 -05:00
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apparmor apparmor: Fix 8-byte alignment for initial dfa blob streams 2025-08-28 16:30:56 +02:00
bpf bpf: lsm: Set bpf_lsm_blob_sizes.lbs_task to 0 2024-09-11 10:11:36 -07:00
integrity ima: don't clear IMA_DIGSIG flag when setting or removing non-IMA xattr 2025-11-13 15:34:32 -05:00
ipe ipe: fallback to platform keyring also if key in trusted keyring is rejected 2024-10-18 12:14:53 -07:00
keys KEYS: trusted_tpm1: Compare HMAC values in constant time 2025-10-19 16:33:51 +02:00
landlock landlock: Prepare to add second errata 2025-04-20 10:15:56 +02:00
loadpin introduce fd_file(), convert all accessors to it. 2024-08-12 22:00:43 -04:00
lockdown lockdown: Make lockdown_lsmid static 2024-08-15 12:11:42 -04:00
safesetid safesetid: check size of policy writes 2025-02-17 10:04:49 +01:00
selinux selinux: change security_compute_sid to return the ssid or tsid on match 2025-07-10 16:05:04 +02:00
smack smack: Revert "smackfs: Added check catlen" 2025-05-29 11:02:48 +02:00
tomoyo tomoyo: don't emit warning in tomoyo_write_control() 2025-02-17 10:04:50 +01:00
yama sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers 2024-07-24 20:59:29 +02:00
commoncap.c lsm: Refactor return value of LSM hook vm_enough_memory 2024-07-31 14:46:51 -04:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: Fix kernel-doc warnings in device_cgroup 2023-06-21 09:30:49 -04:00
inode.c securityfs: don't pin dentries twice, once is enough... 2025-08-20 18:30:21 +02:00
Kconfig lsm: CONFIG_LSM can depend on CONFIG_SECURITY 2025-10-15 11:59:55 +02:00
Kconfig.hardening hardening: Adjust dependencies in selection of MODVERSIONS 2024-09-28 13:56:03 -07:00
lsm_audit.c lsm: fix a number of misspellings 2023-05-25 17:52:15 -04:00
lsm_syscalls.c lsm: use 32-bit compatible data types in LSM syscalls 2024-03-14 11:31:26 -04:00
Makefile lsm: add IPE lsm 2024-08-19 22:36:26 -04:00
min_addr.c sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers 2024-07-24 20:59:29 +02:00
security.c bcachefs: do not use PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM 2024-10-09 12:47:18 -07:00