Denis Efremov [Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:30:04 +0000 (15:30 +0300)]
Add BLK_DEV_FD
Floppy driver was written many years ago. It was designed to
work in a single-threaded environment (many global variables)
and to work on real hardware which has significant delays
(floppy drives are slow). Nowadays, when we use virtual
devices (which are fast) and multi-core cpus, floppy driver
shows its problems including deadlocking/livelocking and
other security-related issues. However, we can't just
rewrite it because lack of real hardware and compatibility
with existing userspace tools, many of which rely on
undocumented driver behavior.
Here are some CVEs related to floppy driver:
- CVE-2014-1737 privileges escalation in FDRAWCMD ioctl
- CVE-2014-1738 info leak from kernel heap in FDRAWCMD ioctl
- CVE-2018-7755 kernel pointer lead in FDGETPRM ioctl
- CVE-2019-14283 integer overflow and out-of-bounds read in set_geometry
- CVE-2019-14284 denial of service in setup_format_params
- CVE-2020-9383 out-of-bounds read in set_fdc
- CVE-2021-20261 race condition in floppy_revalidate,
floppy_check_events
As pointed by Linus [1]:
> The only users are virtualization, and even they are going away
> because floppies are so small, and other things have become more
> standard anyway (ie USB disk) or easier to emulate (NVMe or whatever).
> So I suspect the only reason floppy is used even in that area is just
> legacy "we haven't bothered updating to anything better and we have
> old scripts and images that work".
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD is not enabled in defconfig on x86_64.
Many distros already require root access for /dev/fd0.
However, qemu (5.2.0) still enables floppy device by default.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whFAAV_TOLFNnj=wu4mD2L9OvgB6n2sKDdmd8buMKFv8A@mail.gmail.com/
Alexander Popov [Fri, 20 Aug 2021 16:34:35 +0000 (19:34 +0300)]
Add RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT
This refers to the pull request #52.
Thanks to Levente Polyak aka @anthraxx.
Alexander Popov [Sun, 29 Aug 2021 21:16:27 +0000 (00:16 +0300)]
Add CFI_CLANG
Alexander Popov [Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:10:54 +0000 (20:10 +0300)]
Add ARM64_EPAN
Alexander Popov [Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:19:03 +0000 (21:19 +0300)]
Merge pull request #51 from Hacks4Snacks/master
Added the CBL-Mariner kernel configuration file.
Mark D. Gray [Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:39:03 +0000 (12:39 -0500)]
Added Linux/x86_64 kernel config link for CBL-Mariner
Mark D. Gray [Thu, 19 Aug 2021 20:40:09 +0000 (15:40 -0500)]
Added cbl-mariner kernel configuration file.
Alexander Popov [Sat, 14 Aug 2021 07:10:13 +0000 (10:10 +0300)]
Add hardware tag-based KASAN with arm64 Memory Tagging Extension
Alexander Popov [Sat, 14 Aug 2021 06:33:14 +0000 (09:33 +0300)]
Add the command line parameters that should NOT be set
Alexander Popov [Sun, 8 Aug 2021 22:00:28 +0000 (01:00 +0300)]
Document the changes of vm.unprivileged_userfaultfd in v5.11
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=
37cd0575b8510159992d279c530c05f872990b02
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=
d0d4730ac2e404a5b0da9a87ef38c73e51cb1664
Alexander Popov [Sun, 8 Aug 2021 13:48:04 +0000 (16:48 +0300)]
Add the news about PAGE_POISONING
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=
f289041ed4cf9a3f6e8a32068fef9ffb2acc5662
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=
8f424750baaafcef229791882e879da01c9473b5
Alexander Popov [Fri, 2 Jul 2021 12:56:13 +0000 (15:56 +0300)]
Improve wording
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:36:31 +0000 (20:36 +0300)]
Update the README.
Ready for the release 0.5.10.
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:42:02 +0000 (18:42 +0300)]
Fix pylint warning
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:22:23 +0000 (18:22 +0300)]
Remember that SHADOW_CALL_STACK depends on clang
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:20:02 +0000 (18:20 +0300)]
STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK is also available for ARM64
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:17:33 +0000 (18:17 +0300)]
INTEL_IOMMU_SVM is available only for X86_64
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:08:30 +0000 (18:08 +0300)]
Reorder arch checks
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 12:40:13 +0000 (15:40 +0300)]
SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT is recommended by KSPP now
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 11:49:03 +0000 (14:49 +0300)]
Think about kptr_restrict later (KSPP recommends to set it to 1)
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 11:46:54 +0000 (14:46 +0300)]
Mention that nosmt is slow
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 11:46:07 +0000 (14:46 +0300)]
More info on init_on_free and init_on_alloc
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 11:45:02 +0000 (14:45 +0300)]
SLUB_DEBUG_ON is very slow, leave it for the kernel command line
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 11:27:21 +0000 (14:27 +0300)]
Update KSPP recommendations
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 11:15:14 +0000 (14:15 +0300)]
Add defconfigs for v5.10
Made with updated https://github.com/a13xp0p0v/kernel-build-containers
Excellent!
Alexander Popov [Sat, 19 Jun 2021 10:04:30 +0000 (13:04 +0300)]
HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR for ARM64 is enabled by default since v5.10
Alexander Popov [Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:12:46 +0000 (00:12 +0300)]
Add ARM64_MTE for userspace
Alexander Popov [Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:11:41 +0000 (00:11 +0300)]
Maybe SHADOW_CALL_STACK should be alternative to STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
Alexander Popov [Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:47:20 +0000 (20:47 +0300)]
Save 'debugfs=no-mount' for future
Alexander Popov [Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:56:45 +0000 (20:56 +0300)]
Update the README.
Ready for the release 0.5.9.
Alexander Popov [Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:44:07 +0000 (20:44 +0300)]
Fix indentation (thanks to pylint)
Alexander Popov [Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:03:24 +0000 (11:03 +0300)]
Add a Q&A about spectre-meltdown-checker maintained by @speed47
Alexander Popov [Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:03:01 +0000 (21:03 +0300)]
INIT_STACK_ALL -> INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO (was renamed)
Alexander Popov [Fri, 23 Oct 2020 17:53:33 +0000 (20:53 +0300)]
Add SHADOW_CALL_STACK for ARM64
Alexander Popov [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:46:27 +0000 (22:46 +0300)]
Add the recommendation about TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
Alexander Popov [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:38:35 +0000 (22:38 +0300)]
Add ARM64_BTI_KERNEL
Alexander Popov [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:42:21 +0000 (21:42 +0300)]
Add the recommendation about UBSAN_BOUNDS
Enable UBSAN_BOUNDS and UBSAN_TRAP.
But keep UBSAN_MISC disabled to avoid useless reports.
Alexander Popov [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:46:04 +0000 (20:46 +0300)]
PAGE_POISONING -> PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
In fact, KSPP recommends PAGE_POISONING_ZERO.
Alexander Popov [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:59:00 +0000 (19:59 +0300)]
Improve AND check reports
Alexander Popov [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:09:35 +0000 (19:09 +0300)]
Improve HARDEN_EL2_VECTORS check
In fact HARDEN_EL2_VECTORS was included in RANDOMIZE_BASE in v5.9.
Use new nested ComplexOptChecks for this rule.
Refers to #48.
Alexander Popov [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:55:31 +0000 (18:55 +0300)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'pgils/el2_vectors'
Thanks, @pgils.
Refers to #48.
Alexander Popov [Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:20:37 +0000 (21:20 +0300)]
Add nested ComplexOptChecks support
Now we can do things like OR(opt1, AND(opt2, opt3)).
Cool!
Refers to #48
Pelle van Gils [Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:07:53 +0000 (15:07 +0200)]
Do not check CONFIG_HARDEN_EL2_VECTORS for v5.9+
Alexander Popov [Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:51:01 +0000 (18:51 +0300)]
Add TODO about SLUB_DEBUG_ON
Alexander Popov [Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:39:41 +0000 (18:39 +0300)]
Add CLIP OS recommendation about EFI_CUSTOM_SSDT_OVERLAYS
Alexander Popov [Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:37:35 +0000 (18:37 +0300)]
Disabling ACPI_TABLE_UPGRADE is now recommended by CLIP OS
Alexander Popov [Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:05:37 +0000 (18:05 +0300)]
Withdraw my recommendation about BPF_JIT
CLIP OS wiki and Kees say that BPF interpreter is worse for the kernel
security than BPF_JIT.
So for now I withdraw my recommendation about BPF_JIT.
N.B. LOCKDOWN disables BPF_SYSCALL, but not BPF_JIT.
Alexander Popov [Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:32:20 +0000 (14:32 +0300)]
Use cross compiler to build defconfigs
Alexander Popov [Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:11:35 +0000 (14:11 +0300)]
Add defconfigs for Linux kernel v5.9
Alexander Popov [Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:12:52 +0000 (00:12 +0300)]
Update the README
Ready for release 0.5.7
Alexander Popov [Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:05:49 +0000 (00:05 +0300)]
Fix relevant pylint warnings
Alexander Popov [Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:17:49 +0000 (19:17 +0300)]
Fix 'decision' priority order ('lockdown' vs 'clipos' vs 'grapheneos')
Alexander Popov [Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:16:27 +0000 (19:16 +0300)]
Add CLIP OS recommendations about CONFIG_IO_URING and CONFIG_X86_IOPL_IOPERM
CONFIG_X86_IOPL_IOPERM is also disabled by kernel lockdown
Alexander Popov [Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:14:10 +0000 (19:14 +0300)]
Add CONFIG_EFI_DISABLE_PCI_DMA recommended by CLIP OS
Alexander Popov [Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:26:22 +0000 (18:26 +0300)]
Fix 'decision' -- CONFIG_INTEGRITY is not enabled by default on ARM
Alexander Popov [Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:10:16 +0000 (18:10 +0300)]
Add defconfigs for Linux kernel v5.7
Alexander Popov [Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:15:24 +0000 (16:15 +0300)]
Take new AND use case for X86_PTDUMP / PTDUMP_DEBUGFS
Alexander Popov [Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:12:54 +0000 (16:12 +0300)]
Improve ComplexOptCheck use cases
Alexander Popov [Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:44:39 +0000 (14:44 +0300)]
Add 'show_ok' and 'show_fail' print modes
Refers the issue #45
Alexander Popov [Mon, 13 Jul 2020 19:10:18 +0000 (22:10 +0300)]
Declare variables closer to their usage
Alexander Popov [Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:48:05 +0000 (21:48 +0300)]
Get rid of 'kernel_version' global variable
(done while solving the issue #45)
Alexander Popov [Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:13:43 +0000 (21:13 +0300)]
Big rework of the report modes
Let's fold the alternative options --debug and --json into --mode parameter:
-m {verbose,json}, --mode {verbose,json}
choose the report mode
That also allows to get rid of 'debug_mode' and 'json_mode' globals.
This work is a prerequisite of solving the issue #45.
Alexander Popov [Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:27:35 +0000 (18:27 +0300)]
Add another link about user namespaces to Q&A
Alexander Popov [Fri, 10 Jul 2020 20:35:35 +0000 (23:35 +0300)]
Add ARM64_PAN
Alexander Popov [Thu, 9 Jul 2020 12:24:11 +0000 (15:24 +0300)]
Use += instead of append() for checklist
Alexander Popov [Thu, 9 Jul 2020 11:52:56 +0000 (14:52 +0300)]
Reorder some checking rules for better looking code
Alexander Popov [Thu, 9 Jul 2020 11:16:40 +0000 (14:16 +0300)]
Change the order of arguments in OptCheck constructor
That makes the code style much better.
Side note: I was thinking a lot about storing the checking rules
separately in some file format. Finally I decided not to do that because:
- I want avoid additional parsing (these rules are static anyway);
- the rules include a lot of special cases and exceptions, which
don't look pretty in any format.
Alexander Popov [Thu, 9 Jul 2020 06:30:18 +0000 (09:30 +0300)]
Drop unused 'state' property from ComplexOptCheck
Alexander Popov [Thu, 9 Jul 2020 05:59:24 +0000 (08:59 +0300)]
Don't return self.result in check() method -- it's not used
Alexander Popov [Mon, 6 Jul 2020 22:55:21 +0000 (01:55 +0300)]
ARM64_PTR_AUTH is now supported for the kernel (from v5.7)
Alexander Popov [Fri, 3 Jul 2020 18:10:56 +0000 (21:10 +0300)]
Add the link to huldufolk project by @tych0
Alexander Popov [Sat, 30 May 2020 20:17:46 +0000 (23:17 +0300)]
Add the link to @BlackIkeEagle article
Alexander Popov [Wed, 6 May 2020 21:36:58 +0000 (00:36 +0300)]
Merge branch 'ubuntu20'
Thanks @HacKurx.
HacKurx [Tue, 5 May 2020 08:51:33 +0000 (10:51 +0200)]
Upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 kernel config
CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER = FAIL: "y"
CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM = OK
CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM_EARLY = OK
CONFIG_LOCK_DOWN_KERNEL_FORCE_CONFIDENTIALITY = FAIL: "is not set"
Alexander Popov [Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:54:38 +0000 (18:54 +0300)]
Merge branch 'evbug'
Thanks @HacKurx
Alexander Popov [Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:28:30 +0000 (18:28 +0300)]
Merge branch 'pylint'
Thanks @shamilbi
HacKurx [Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:48:56 +0000 (13:48 +0200)]
Updating the number of failures in the README
HacKurx [Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:25:37 +0000 (13:25 +0200)]
Add CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG
The "evbug" module records key events and mouse movements in the system log.
Useful for debugging, this is a security threat, its use can be hijacked as a keylogger.
An attacker will be able to retrieve your passwords using this module.
shamilbi [Wed, 8 Apr 2020 06:57:04 +0000 (13:57 +0700)]
pylint some code
Alexander Popov [Mon, 6 Apr 2020 14:36:19 +0000 (17:36 +0300)]
Improve versioning
Alexander Popov [Fri, 3 Apr 2020 17:00:06 +0000 (20:00 +0300)]
Add DRM_LEGACY, FB, and VT checks
Thanks to:
- Dmitry Vyukov @dvyukov for the idea
- Daniel Vetter @danvet for the knowledge
Alexander Popov [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:57:03 +0000 (16:57 +0300)]
Implement PresenceCheck and use it for LDISC_AUTOLOAD
Refers to #32
Alexander Popov [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:42:05 +0000 (16:42 +0300)]
Fix ComplexOptCheck result printing
Alexander Popov [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:41:40 +0000 (16:41 +0300)]
Newline should be printed by print_checklist() that prints the table
Alexander Popov [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:18:44 +0000 (16:18 +0300)]
Add more tests to increase coverage - IV
Alexander Popov [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:18:05 +0000 (16:18 +0300)]
Create polymorphism for printing, add table_print() method for each class
That makes print_checklist() much better.
Alexander Popov [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:24:13 +0000 (15:24 +0300)]
Revisit special behavior in checking and printing that depends on the class
Alexander Popov [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 11:34:38 +0000 (14:34 +0300)]
Rename some workflow steps
Alexander Popov [Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:29:42 +0000 (23:29 +0300)]
Add more tests to increase coverage - III
Alexander Popov [Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:11:00 +0000 (20:11 +0300)]
Add more tests to increase coverage - II
Alexander Popov [Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:06:09 +0000 (20:06 +0300)]
Add more tests to increase coverage - I
Alexander Popov [Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:08:29 +0000 (19:08 +0300)]
Collect coverage
Alexander Popov [Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:36:14 +0000 (16:36 +0300)]
Count checked configs
Alexander Popov [Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:04:26 +0000 (15:04 +0300)]
Check all configs automatically
Alexander Popov [Mon, 30 Mar 2020 11:53:55 +0000 (14:53 +0300)]
Revisit return values
Alexander Popov [Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:51:26 +0000 (12:51 +0300)]
Create the github workflow for functional tests
Alexander Popov [Sat, 28 Mar 2020 20:58:29 +0000 (23:58 +0300)]
Fix the shebang to allow `./get-nix-kconfig.py`
Thanks to @Mic92
Refers to #27
Alexander Popov [Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:25:02 +0000 (23:25 +0300)]
Add NixOS hardened kernel config
Alexander Popov [Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:55:56 +0000 (17:55 +0300)]
Fix typo in README
Alexander Popov [Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:57:54 +0000 (16:57 +0300)]
Add vim swp files to gitignore