fix: allow unsandboxed renderers to request new privileges (7-0-x) (#19999)

* fix: allow unsandboxed renderers to request new privileges

* add test

spec/node-spec.js

@@ -155,6 +155,19 @@ describe('node feature', () => {
         })
       })
     })
+
+    describe('child_process.exec', () => {
+      (process.platform === 'linux' ? it : it.skip)('allows executing a setuid binary from non-sandboxed renderer', () => {
+        // Chrome uses prctl(2) to set the NO_NEW_PRIVILEGES flag on Linux (see
+        // https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/40fde647cc/Documentation/userspace-api/no_new_privs.rst).
+        // We disable this for unsandboxed processes, which the remote tests
+        // are running in. If this test fails with an error like 'effective uid
+        // is not 0', then it's likely that our patch to prevent the flag from
+        // being set has become ineffective.
+        const stdout = ChildProcess.execSync('sudo --help')
+        expect(stdout).to.not.be.empty()
+      })
+    })
   })
 
   describe('contexts', () => {