Bug 14780 - Private libraries are injected into system applications
Summary: Private libraries are injected into system applications
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Samba 4.1 and newer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Winbind (show other bugs)
Version: 4.15.0rc1
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Stefan Metzmacher
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
URL: https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-...
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Reported: 2021-08-03 18:54 UTC by Stefan Metzmacher
Modified: 2023-09-12 14:37 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Description Stefan Metzmacher 2021-08-03 18:54:31 UTC
Over the last month I got more and more reports,
that it's not possible to use a custom Samba version
on systems with sssd being installed, which depends on some
specific samba libraries installed in the system.

One major problem is that the custom libnss_winbind.so.2
depends on the libreplace-samba4.so of the custom build
and also injects an RPATH into the running process.
When sssd uses any nss library call it will get this,
when it then tries to load some of its plugins via dlopen(),
e.g. ldd /usr/lib64/sssd/libsss_ad.so| grep samba
   libsamba-util.so.0 => /lib64/libsamba-util.so.0
   libreplace-samba4.so => /usr/lib64/samba/libreplace-samba4.so
   libsamba-security-samba4.so => /usr/lib64/samba/libsamba-security-samba4.so
   libsamba-errors.so.1 => /lib64/libsamba-errors.so.1
   libsamba-debug-samba4.so => /usr/lib64/samba/libsamba-debug-samba4.so
   libgenrand-samba4.so => /usr/lib64/samba/libgenrand-samba4.so
   libsocket-blocking-samba4.so => /usr/lib64/samba/libsocket-blocking-samba4.so
   libtime-basic-samba4.so => /usr/lib64/samba/libtime-basic-samba4.so
   libsys-rw-samba4.so => /usr/lib64/samba/libsys-rw-samba4.so
   libiov-buf-samba4.so => /usr/lib64/samba/libiov-buf-samba4.so

When that loads dlopen() will fail as a soname libreplace-samba4.so is already
loaded, but the symbol version within the other one don't match, as the contain
the exact version, e.g. replace_dummy@@SAMBA_4.13.3.

This is just an example and similar things can happen in all situations
where we provide libraries, which are potentially injected into every
process of the running system. These should only depend on libc.so and
related basic system libraries in order to avoid the problem.

We have the following libraries, which are in the that category:

- libnss_winbind.so.2
- libnss_wins.so.2
- pam_winbind.so
- winbind_krb5_locator.so
- async_dns_krb5_locator.so

The rules of library loading are really complex and symbol versioning
is not enough to solve it, only the combination of unique soname and
unique symbol version suffix seem to solve the problem, but injecting
an RPATH is still a problem.

In order to solve the problem I experimented with adding SAMBA_SUBSYSTEM()
definitions with 'hide_symbols=True' in order to do some static linking
of selected components, e.g.

   bld.SAMBA_SUBSYSTEM('replace-hidden',
                       source=REPLACE_SOURCE,
                       group='base_libraries',
                       hide_symbols=True,
                       deps='dl attr' + extra_libs)

It's relatively simple to get to the point where the following are
completely static:
- libnss_winbind.so.2
- libnss_wins.so.2
- pam_winbind.so
- winbind_krb5_locator.so

But 'async_dns_krb5_locator.so' links in almost everything!
And the krb5 plugins are always loaded without any configuration,
every .so in a special pass are loaded with dlopen(), by every
application using kerberos, so we load a lot of samba libraries
into them.

I think we should disable async_dns_krb5_locator.so by default,
or at least install it into a path that's not reachable by
libkrb5.so. But it would still allow the admin to create a
symlink to activate it. As a longterm solution we may want
to change async_dns_krb5_locator.so to use a helper process
with posix_spawn() instead of doing everything within the process.
Comment 1 Samba QA Contact 2021-11-30 16:45:04 UTC
This bug was referenced in samba master:

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Comment 2 Stefan Metzmacher 2021-11-30 18:35:17 UTC
This will be fixed in 4.16, people can backport this into private
trees as needed, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to change names of
private libraries in 4.15.x...