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net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:29:27 +0000 (14:29 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:44:54 +0000 (13:44 -0400)
commit4fc5529e1fa6c3506bd2df857231a9a1ce1619ee
tree85d43e6c5d8b10fb79fcb9c402217f8eb54bbe12
parent80d06fe7e86c577b8186c014c8861bbfc3e2bc1e
net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages

It is possible by passing a netlink socket to a more privileged
executable and then to fool that executable into writing to the socket
data that happens to be valid netlink message to do something that
privileged executable did not intend to do.

To keep this from happening replace bare capable and ns_capable calls
with netlink_capable, netlink_net_calls and netlink_ns_capable calls.
Which act the same as the previous calls except they verify that the
opener of the socket had the desired permissions as well.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
19 files changed:
crypto/crypto_user.c
drivers/connector/cn_proc.c
drivers/scsi/scsi_netlink.c
kernel/audit.c
net/can/gw.c
net/core/rtnetlink.c
net/dcb/dcbnl.c
net/decnet/dn_dev.c
net/decnet/dn_fib.c
net/decnet/netfilter/dn_rtmsg.c
net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
net/netlink/genetlink.c
net/packet/diag.c
net/phonet/pn_netlink.c
net/sched/act_api.c
net/sched/cls_api.c
net/sched/sch_api.c
net/tipc/netlink.c
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c