libcontainer: mark all non-stdio fds O_CLOEXEC before spawning init

Given the core issue in GHSA-xr7r-f8xq-vfvv was that we were unknowingly
leaking file descriptors to "runc init", it seems prudent to make sure
we proactively prevent this in the future. The solution is to simply
mark all non-stdio file descriptors as O_CLOEXEC before we spawn "runc
init".

For libcontainer library users, this could result in unrelated files
being marked as O_CLOEXEC -- however (for the same reason we are doing
this for runc), for security reasons those files should've been marked
as O_CLOEXEC anyway.

Fixes: GHSA-xr7r-f8xq-vfvv CVE-2024-21626
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <[email protected]>

Author: cyphar

libcontainer/container_linux.go

@@ -353,6 +353,15 @@ func (c *linuxContainer) start(process *Process) (retErr error) {
 		}()
 	}
 
+	// Before starting "runc init", mark all non-stdio open files as O_CLOEXEC
+	// to make sure we don't leak any files into "runc init". Any files to be
+	// passed to "runc init" through ExtraFiles will get dup2'd by the Go
+	// runtime and thus their O_CLOEXEC flag will be cleared. This is some
+	// additional protection against attacks like CVE-2024-21626, by making
+	// sure we never leak files to "runc init" we didn't intend to.
+	if err := utils.CloseExecFrom(3); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("unable to mark non-stdio fds as cloexec: %w", err)
+	}
 	if err := parent.start(); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("unable to start container process: %w", err)
 	}