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      Assert apps can access only approved HwBinder services · 2a7f4fb0
      Alex Klyubin authored
      App domains which host arbitrary code must not have access to
      arbitrary HwBinder services. Such access unnecessarily increases the
      attack surface. The reason is twofold:
      1. HwBinder servers do not perform client authentication because HIDL
         currently does not expose caller UID information and, even if it
         did, many HwBinder services either operate at a layer below that of
         apps (e.g., HALs) or must not rely on app identity for
         authorization. Thus, to be safe, the default assumption is that
         a HwBinder service treats all its clients as equally authorized to
         perform operations offered by the service.
      2. HAL servers (a subset of HwBinder services) contain code with
         higher incidence rate of security issues than system/core
         components and have access to lower layes of the stack (all the way
         down to hardware) thus increasing opportunities for bypassing the
         Android security model.
      
      HwBinder services offered by core components (as opposed to vendor
      components) are considered safer because of point #2 above.
      
      Always same-process aka always-passthrough HwBinder services are
      considered safe for access by these apps. This is because these HALs
      by definition do not offer any additional access beyond what its
      client already as, because these services run in the process of the
      client.
      
      This commit thus introduces these two categories of HwBinder services
      in neverallow rules.
      
      Test: mmm system/sepolicy -- this does not change on-device policy
      Bug: 34454312
      Change-Id: I4f5f4dd10b3fc3bb9d262dda532d4a23dcdf061d
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      Assert apps can access only approved HwBinder services
      Alex Klyubin authored
      App domains which host arbitrary code must not have access to
      arbitrary HwBinder services. Such access unnecessarily increases the
      attack surface. The reason is twofold:
      1. HwBinder servers do not perform client authentication because HIDL
         currently does not expose caller UID information and, even if it
         did, many HwBinder services either operate at a layer below that of
         apps (e.g., HALs) or must not rely on app identity for
         authorization. Thus, to be safe, the default assumption is that
         a HwBinder service treats all its clients as equally authorized to
         perform operations offered by the service.
      2. HAL servers (a subset of HwBinder services) contain code with
         higher incidence rate of security issues than system/core
         components and have access to lower layes of the stack (all the way
         down to hardware) thus increasing opportunities for bypassing the
         Android security model.
      
      HwBinder services offered by core components (as opposed to vendor
      components) are considered safer because of point #2 above.
      
      Always same-process aka always-passthrough HwBinder services are
      considered safe for access by these apps. This is because these HALs
      by definition do not offer any additional access beyond what its
      client already as, because these services run in the process of the
      client.
      
      This commit thus introduces these two categories of HwBinder services
      in neverallow rules.
      
      Test: mmm system/sepolicy -- this does not change on-device policy
      Bug: 34454312
      Change-Id: I4f5f4dd10b3fc3bb9d262dda532d4a23dcdf061d