[PATCH v6 00/15] integrity: Introduce the Integrity Digest Cache

[Roberto Sassu]

On Tue, 2024-11-26 at 00:13 +0000, Eric Snowberg wrote:
> 
> > On Nov 19, 2024, at 3:49 AM, Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huaweicloud.com> wrote:
> > 
> > From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>
> > 
> > The Integrity Digest Cache can also help IMA for appraisal. IMA can simply
> > lookup the calculated digest of an accessed file in the list of digests
> > extracted from package headers, after verifying the header signature. It is
> > sufficient to verify only one signature for all files in the package, as
> > opposed to verifying a signature for each file.
> 
> Is there a way to maintain integrity over time?  Today if a CVE is discovered 
> in a signed program, the program hash can be added to the blacklist keyring. 
> Later if IMA appraisal is used, the signature validation will fail just for that 
> program.  With the Integrity Digest Cache, is there a way to do this?  

As far as I can see, the ima_check_blacklist() call is before
ima_appraise_measurement(). If it fails, appraisal with the Integrity
Digest Cache will not be done.

In the future, we might use the Integrity Digest Cache for blacklists
too. Since a digest cache is reset on a file/directory change, IMA
would have to revalidate the program digest against a new digest cache.

Thanks

Roberto