VIRTFS-PROXY-HELPER.1(1) | VIRTFS-PROXY-HELPER.1(1) |
virtfs-proxy-helper - QEMU 9p virtfs proxy filesystem helper
virtfs-proxy-helper options
1) TOCTTOU vulnerability: Following symbolic links in the server could provide access to files beyond 9p export path.
2) Running QEMU with root privilege could be a security issue.
To overcome above issues, following approach is used: A new filesystem type 'proxy' is introduced. Proxy FS uses chroot + socket combination for securing the vulnerability known with following symbolic links. Intention of adding a new filesystem type is to allow qemu to run in non-root mode, but doing privileged operations using socket IO.
Proxy helper(a stand alone binary part of qemu) is invoked with root privileges. Proxy helper chroots into 9p export path and creates a socket pair or a named socket based on the command line parameter. QEMU and proxy helper communicate using this socket. QEMU proxy fs driver sends filesystem request to proxy helper and receives the response from it.
The proxy helper is designed so that it can drop root privileges except for the capabilities needed for doing filesystem operations.
The following options are supported:
M. Mohan Kumar
2020-07-24 |