From 90f62cf30a78721641e08737bda787552428061e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:29:27 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/netlink/genetlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/netlink/genetlink.c') diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c index b1dcdb932a86e..a3ba3ca0ff928 100644 --- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ static int genl_family_rcv_msg(struct genl_family *family, return -EOPNOTSUPP; if ((ops->flags & GENL_ADMIN_PERM) && - !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) + !netlink_capable(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; if ((nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP) == NLM_F_DUMP) { -- cgit v1.2.3