grsecurity module: disable EFI runtime services by default

Enabling EFI runtime services provides a venue for injecting code into
the kernel.

When grsecurity is enabled, we close this by default by disabling access
to EFI runtime services.  The upshot of this is that
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars will be unavailable by default (and attempts
to mount it will fail).

This is not strictly a grsecurity related option, it could be made into
a general option, but it seems to be of particular interest to
grsecurity users (for non-grsecurity users, there are other, more
immediate kernel injection attack dangers to contend with anyway).
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Joachim Fasting 2016-08-01 15:36:03 +02:00
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@ -265,6 +265,11 @@
<sect1 xml:id="sec-grsec-issues"><title>Issues and work-arounds</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Access to EFI runtime services is disabled by default:
this plugs a potential code injection attack vector; use
<option>security.grsecurity.disableEfiRuntimeServices</option> to override
this behavior.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Virtualization: KVM is the preferred virtualization
solution. Xen, Virtualbox, and VMWare are
<emphasis>unsupported</emphasis> and most likely require a custom kernel.

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@ -37,6 +37,18 @@ in
'';
};
disableEfiRuntimeServices = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
example = false;
default = true;
description = ''
Whether to disable access to EFI runtime services. Enabling EFI runtime
services creates a venue for code injection attacks on the kernel and
should be disabled if at all possible. Changing this option enters into
effect upon reboot.
'';
};
};
config = mkIf cfg.enable {
@ -45,6 +57,8 @@ in
# required kernel config
boot.kernelPackages = mkDefault pkgs.linuxPackages_grsec_nixos;
boot.kernelParams = optional cfg.disableEfiRuntimeServices "noefi";
system.requiredKernelConfig = with config.lib.kernelConfig;
[ (isEnabled "GRKERNSEC")
(isEnabled "PAX")