From cac625df778c68b7bcb761ed51d42b8db9e2fea8 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 --- crypto/crypto_user.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'crypto') diff --git a/crypto/crypto_user.c b/crypto/crypto_user.c index 1512e41c..43665d0d 100644 --- a/crypto/crypto_user.c +++ b/crypto/crypto_user.c @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ static int crypto_user_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh) type -= CRYPTO_MSG_BASE; link = &crypto_dispatch[type]; - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) + if (!netlink_capable(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; if ((type == (CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG - CRYPTO_MSG_BASE) && -- cgit v1.2.3