Container Security Daniel J Walsh Consulting Engineer Twitter: @rhatdan Blog: danwalsh.livejournal.com Email: dwalsh@redhat.com Container Security

As explained by the three pigs Container Security

Chapter 1:When should I use containers versus virtual machines?

Chapter 2:What platform should host my containers?

Chapter 3:How do I ensure container separation?

Chapter 4: How do I secure content inside container?

GlossaryPig == Application Chapter 1Where should the pigs live?

When should I use containers versus virtual machines? Standalone Homes(Separate Physical Machines) Duplex Home(Virtual Machines) Apartment Building(Containers) Hostel(Services Same Machine) Park(setenforce 0) http://stopdisablingselinux.com/ Pigs in Apartment Buildings

Best combination resource sharingease of maintenance & Security. Chapter 2 - What kind ofapartment building?

What platform should host your containers? Straw?

Running containers on do it yourself platform. Sticks?

Running containers on community platform. Brick?

Running containers on RHEL. RHEL Maintenance

Security Response Team. Chapter 3How do I separate/secure pig apartments?

How do you ensure container separation?

Containers do not Contain
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Do you care? Should you care? Treat Container Services just likeregular services

Drop privileges as quickly as possible

Run your services as non Root whenever possible

Treat root within a container the same as root outside of the container

"Docker is about running random crap from the internet as root on your host"

Only run containers from trusted parties Why don't containers contain?

Everything in Linux is not namespaced

Containers are not comprehensive like virtual machines (kvm)

Kernel file systems: /sys, /sys/fs, /proc/sys

Cgroups, SELinux, /dev/mem, kernel modules Overview of Security within Docker containers Read Only Mount Points

/sys, /proc/sys, /proc/sysrq-trigger,/proc/irq, /proc/bus Capabilities

man capabilities

DESCRIPTION
     For  the  purpose  of  performing  permission  checks, traditional UNIX
     implementations distinguish two  categories  of  processes:  privileged
     processes  (whose  effective  user ID is 0, referred to as superuser or
     root), and unprivileged processes (whose  effective  UID  is  nonzero).
     Privileged processes bypass all kernel permission checks, while 
     unprivileged processes are subject to full permission checking based on
     the process's credentials (usually: effective UID, effective GID, and 
     supplementary group list).

     Starting with kernel 2.2, Linux divides  the  privileges  traditionally
     associated  with  superuser into distinct units, known as capabilities,
     which can be independently enabled and disabled.   Capabilities  are  a
     per-thread attribute.
Capabilities Removed
CAP_SETPCAPModify process capabilities
CAP_SYS_MODULEInsert/Remove kernel modules
CAP_SYS_RAWIOModify Kernel Memory
CAP_SYS_PACCTConfigure process accounting
CAP_SYS_NICEModify Priotity of processes
CAP_SYS_RESOURCEOverride Resource Limits
CAP_SYS_TIMEModify the system clock
CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIGConfigure tty devices
CAP_AUDIT_WRITEWrite the audit log
CAP_AUDIT_CONTROLConfigure Audit Subsystem
CAP_MAC_OVERRIDEIgnore Kernel MAC Policy
CAP_MAC_ADMINConfigure MAC Configuration
CAP_SYSLOGModify Kernel printk behavior
Capabilities Removed
CAP_NET_ADMINConfigure the network
CAP_SYS_ADMINCatch all
SYS_ADMIN
less /usr/include/linux/capability.h 
...
/* Allow configuration of the secure attention key */
/* Allow administration of the random device */
/* Allow examination and configuration of disk quotas */
/* Allow setting the domainname */
/* Allow setting the hostname */
/* Allow calling bdflush() */
/* Allow mount() and umount(), setting up new smb connection */
/* Allow some autofs root ioctls */
/* Allow nfsservctl */
/* Allow VM86_REQUEST_IRQ */
/* Allow to read/write pci config on alpha */
/* Allow irix_prctl on mips (setstacksize) */
/* Allow flushing all cache on m68k (sys_cacheflush) */
/* Allow removing semaphores */
/* Used instead of CAP_CHOWN to "chown" IPC message queues, semaphores
   and shared memory */
/* Allow locking/unlocking of shared memory segment */
/* Allow turning swap on/off */
/* Allow forged pids on socket credentials passing */
/* Allow setting readahead and flushing buffers on block devices */
SYS_ADMIN
/* Allow setting geometry in floppy driver */
/* Allow turning DMA on/off in xd driver */
/* Allow administration of md devices (mostly the above, but some
   extra ioctls) */
/* Allow tuning the ide driver */
/* Allow access to the nvram device */
/* Allow administration of apm_bios, serial and bttv (TV) device */
/* Allow manufacturer commands in isdn CAPI support driver */
/* Allow reading non-standardized portions of pci configuration space */
/* Allow DDI debug ioctl on sbpcd driver */
/* Allow setting up serial ports */
/* Allow sending raw qic-117 commands */
/* Allow enabling/disabling tagged queuing on SCSI controllers and sending
   arbitrary SCSI commands */
/* Allow setting encryption key on loopback filesystem */
/* Allow setting zone reclaim policy */
Namespaces

PID Name Space

Network Name Space Cgroups Device Cgroup Should have been a namespace Controls which device nodes can be created within namespace

Device nodes allow processes to configure kernel
/dev/console/dev/zero/dev/null/dev/fuse
/dev/full/dev/tty*/dev/urandom/dev/random

images mounted with nodev SELinux

Everyone Please Stand Up and Repeat after me

SELinux is a LABELING system

Every Process has a LABEL

Every File, Directory, System object has a LABEL

Policy rules control access between labeled processes and labeled objects

The Kernel enforces the rules

Grab yourSELinuxText Book Type Enforcement Type Enforcement Type Enforcement Type Enforcement Type Enforcement Type Enforcement Type Enforcement

Protects the host system from container processes

Container processes can only read/execute /usr files

Container processes only write to container files.
process typesvirt_lxc_net_t
file typesvirt_sandbox_file_t
MCS Enforcement

Multi Category Security

Based on Multi Level Security (MLS) MCS Enforcement MCS Enforcement MCS Enforcement MCS Enforcement MCS Enforcement

Protects containers from each other.

Container Processes can only read/write their own files.

Docker Daemon picks out unique random MCS Label.s0:c1,c2

Assigns MCS Label to all content

Launches the container processes with same label Docker Without SELinux

Is like Tupperware without the burp Future

seccomp

Shrink the attack surface on the kernel

Eliminate syscalls kexec_load, open_by_handle_at, init_module, finit_module, delete_module, iopl, ioperm, swapon, swapoff, sysfs, sysctl, adjtimex, clock_adjtime, lookup_dcookie, perf_event_open, fanotify_init, kcmp

block 32 bit syscalls

block old weird networks Future

User Name Space

Map non root user to root within container

Can we use it to protect the host?

Can we protect one container from another?

No file system support Chapter 4How do you furnish the pigs apartment?

How do I secure content inside container? LINUX 1999

Where did you go to get software?

Go to yahoo.com or AltaVista.com and google it?

I found it on rpmfind.net, download and install.

Hey I hear there is a big Security vulnerability in Zlib.

How many copies of the Zlib vulnerability to you have?

I have no clue!!! Red Hat to the rescue

Red Hat Enterprise Linux solved this problem

Certified software and hardware platforms

People have no idea of quality of software in docker images

Or they are building them themselves? Lets Talk About DEV/OPS

Containers move the responsibility for security updates from the Operator to the Developer.

Do you trust developers to fix security issues in their images? What happens when the next Shell Shock hits

RHEL Certified Images Red Hat Support and Security teams partnering with you to secure your software Don't let this be you.

Questions?