According to Stefan, this problem has been fixed by this commit:
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=cc4662f9642995c78
... so let's close this bug ticket now.
** Changed in: qemu
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/807893
Title:
qemu privilege escalation
Status in QEMU:
Fix Released
Bug description:
If qemu is started as root, with -runas, the extra groups is not
dropped correctly
/proc/`pidof qemu`/status
..
Uid: 100 100 100 100
Gid: 100 100 100 100
FDSize: 32
Groups: 0 1 2 3 4 6 10 11 26 27
...
The fix is to add initgroups() or setgroups(1, [gid]) where
appropriate to os-posix.c.
The extra gid's allow read or write access to other files (such as
/dev etc).
Emulating the qemu code:
# python
...
>>> import os
>>> os.setgid(100)
>>> os.setuid(100)
>>> os.execve("/bin/sh", [ "/bin/sh" ], os.environ)
sh-4.1$ xxd /dev/sda | head -n2
0000000: eb48 9000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .H..............
0000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
sh-4.1$ ls -l /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Jul 8 11:54 /dev/sda
sh-4.1$ id
uid=100(qemu00) gid=100(users)
groups=100(users),0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),11(floppy),26(tape),27(video)
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