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authorYorick van Pelt <yorick@yorickvanpelt.nl>2023-02-14 12:03:34 +0100
committerYorick van Pelt <yorick@yorickvanpelt.nl>2023-02-14 12:03:34 +0100
commitdb41f74af39850d0aeb2741304c1eacf90ceea88 (patch)
treef83d4dc9c99e0af63a8986c1a4ed082a55a479bb
parentdf9a71f6ea66f9ab1e4955d5fef62eacd817f976 (diff)
Don't allow writing to /etc
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc4
-rw-r--r--tests/linux-sandbox.sh3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc b/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc
index 7c4892c96..de023f336 100644
--- a/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc
@@ -670,7 +670,6 @@ void LocalDerivationGoal::startBuilder()
nobody account. The latter is kind of a hack to support
Samba-in-QEMU. */
createDirs(chrootRootDir + "/etc");
- chownToBuilder(chrootRootDir + "/etc");
if (parsedDrv->useUidRange() && (!buildUser || buildUser->getUIDCount() < 65536))
throw Error("feature 'uid-range' requires the setting '%s' to be enabled", settings.autoAllocateUids.name);
@@ -970,6 +969,9 @@ void LocalDerivationGoal::startBuilder()
"nobody:x:65534:65534:Nobody:/:/noshell\n",
sandboxUid(), sandboxGid(), settings.sandboxBuildDir));
+ /* Make /etc unwritable */
+ chmod_(chrootRootDir + "/etc", 0555);
+
/* Save the mount- and user namespace of the child. We have to do this
*before* the child does a chroot. */
sandboxMountNamespace = open(fmt("/proc/%d/ns/mnt", (pid_t) pid).c_str(), O_RDONLY);
diff --git a/tests/linux-sandbox.sh b/tests/linux-sandbox.sh
index 3f304ac2f..e62039567 100644
--- a/tests/linux-sandbox.sh
+++ b/tests/linux-sandbox.sh
@@ -37,3 +37,6 @@ nix-build check.nix -A nondeterministic --sandbox-paths /nix/store --no-out-link
(! nix-build check.nix -A nondeterministic --sandbox-paths /nix/store --no-out-link --check -K 2> $TEST_ROOT/log)
if grep -q 'error: renaming' $TEST_ROOT/log; then false; fi
grep -q 'may not be deterministic' $TEST_ROOT/log
+
+# Test that sandboxed builds cannot write to /etc easily
+(! nix-build -E 'with import ./config.nix; mkDerivation { name = "etc-write"; buildCommand = "echo > /etc/test"; }' --no-out-link --sandbox-paths /nix/store)