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@CharlieC3 CharlieC3 commented Aug 24, 2023

As noted here, it's a good idea to pair MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true with SystemCallArchitectures=native because MemoryDenyWriteExecute can be circumvented in some operating systems which support multiple ABIs like x86/x86-64.
This helps restrict the possible application binary interfaces (ABIs) that can be used when running bitcoind through systemd, reducing the attack surface area.

It's recommended to restrict the possible application binary interfaces that can be used when setting `MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true` to ensure it cannot be circumvented.
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Sjors commented Aug 25, 2023

Probably Concept ACK, because nix-bitcoin does this too: https://github.com/fort-nix/nix-bitcoin/blob/master/pkgs/lib.nix

Might as well consider all the extra stuff they added there.

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laanwj commented Apr 9, 2024

ACK 0244416 . This is a sensible security feature.
It looks like the documentation of systemd.exec even mentions this pairing.

I do agree with @Sjors, however, that when we're adding systemd hardening options, we might as well look further.

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0xB10C commented Apr 10, 2024

ACK 0244416

@ryanofsky ryanofsky merged commit dbd2000 into bitcoin:master Apr 17, 2024
PastaPastaPasta pushed a commit to PastaPastaPasta/dash that referenced this pull request Oct 25, 2024
0244416 security: restrict abis in bitcoind.service (Charlie)

Pull request description:

  [As noted here](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html#MemoryDenyWriteExecute=), it's a good idea to pair `MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true` with `SystemCallArchitectures=native` because `MemoryDenyWriteExecute` can be circumvented in some operating systems which support multiple ABIs like x86/x86-64.
  This helps restrict the possible application binary interfaces (ABIs) that can be used when running bitcoind through systemd, reducing the attack surface area.

ACKs for top commit:
  laanwj:
    ACK 0244416 . This is a sensible security feature.
  0xB10C:
    ACK 0244416

Tree-SHA512: 77a35b0674d8d67d857cd20ae1b8cd011f82d6f5ed21bc106cbe45bfa937e786ddc1bf7261e3bdb8c289df1224e91658760905d2c8f37cc4c6506ef8037ad158
PastaPastaPasta pushed a commit to PastaPastaPasta/dash that referenced this pull request Oct 26, 2024
0244416 security: restrict abis in bitcoind.service (Charlie)

Pull request description:

  [As noted here](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html#MemoryDenyWriteExecute=), it's a good idea to pair `MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true` with `SystemCallArchitectures=native` because `MemoryDenyWriteExecute` can be circumvented in some operating systems which support multiple ABIs like x86/x86-64.
  This helps restrict the possible application binary interfaces (ABIs) that can be used when running bitcoind through systemd, reducing the attack surface area.

ACKs for top commit:
  laanwj:
    ACK 0244416 . This is a sensible security feature.
  0xB10C:
    ACK 0244416

Tree-SHA512: 77a35b0674d8d67d857cd20ae1b8cd011f82d6f5ed21bc106cbe45bfa937e786ddc1bf7261e3bdb8c289df1224e91658760905d2c8f37cc4c6506ef8037ad158
PastaPastaPasta added a commit to dashpay/dash that referenced this pull request Oct 27, 2024
700b8c5 Merge bitcoin#29658: Bugfix: GUI: Help messages already have a trailing newline, so don't add an extra one (merge-script)
a0cd305 Merge bitcoin#29948: test: add missing comparison of node1's mempool in MempoolPackagesTest (Ava Chow)
f1907ea Merge bitcoin#29984: net: Replace ifname check with IFF_LOOPBACK in Discover (merge-script)
daa6eee Merge bitcoin#29960: depends: pass verbose through to cmake based makefiles (merge-script)
61a5832 Merge bitcoin#29907: test: Fix `test/streams_tests.cpp` compilation on SunOS / illumos (merge-script)
23f25a9 Merge bitcoin#29872: test: Add missing Assert(mock_time_in >= 0s) to SetMockTime (merge-script)
a7daee7 Merge bitcoin#29689: lint: scripted-diff verification also requires GNU grep (Ava Chow)
3df1ca1 Merge bitcoin#29953: doc: Bash is needed in gen_id and is not installed on FreeBSD by default (merge-script)
b53b854 Merge bitcoin#29850: net: Decrease nMaxIPs when learning from DNS seeds (Ava Chow)
c4a147c Merge bitcoin#28340: security: restrict abis in bitcoind.service (Ryan Ofsky)
acfdf9e Merge bitcoin#28373: doc: Add example of mixing private and public keys in descriptors (Ava Chow)
51bc8bd Merge bitcoin#29859: build: Fix false positive `CHECK_ATOMIC` test (merge-script)
bb4102c Merge bitcoin#29893: test: fix intermittent failure in p2p_compactblocks_hb.py (glozow)
4ecb761 Merge bitcoin#29786: Drop Windows Socket dependency for `randomenv.cpp` (fanquake)
1a8e805 Merge bitcoin#29498: test: Update --tmpdir doc string to say directory must not exist (fanquake)
81ca71c Merge bitcoin#29781: depends: add new LLVM debug macro (fanquake)
5ce92ca Merge bitcoin#29527: depends: add -g to DEBUG=1 flags (fanquake)

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  ## Issue being fixed or feature implemented
  Trivial backports

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  ## How Has This Been Tested?
  built locally

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  UdjinM6:
    utACK 700b8c5 but pls confirm Guix is happy now before merging
  kwvg:
    utACK 700b8c5

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