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Bypassing SELinux with init_module (seanpesce.blogspot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Good technical write up on how this could be exploited

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's a really interesting bypass; I wonder how this can be patched or mitigated considering the module is entirely loaded from memory. Short of setting noexec on temporary directories, I can't think of any quick short term fixes.

Edit: Re-read the blog post and looked at the Github repo for the code- looks like this is more of a proof of concept of a SELinux confine bypass, as the kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DEVELOP set. See the readme here, there's some more notes that weren't included in the blog post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Original author here - just came across this thread and had a quick correction - CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DEVELOP is only required to disable SELinux for more userspace freedom (which was the goal of the proof of concept). However, once you have execution as kernel, you can really do whatever you want even if SELinux is still on (it's just easier to operate in user-space IMO).