From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
security@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: fix namespace handling in nf_log_proc_dostring
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 08:46:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161004064653.GA8692@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474227655-5022-1-git-send-email-jann@thejh.net>
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 09:40:55PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> nf_log_proc_dostring() used current's network namespace instead of the one
> corresponding to the sysctl file the write was performed on. Because the
> permission check happens at open time and the nf_log files in namespaces
> are accessible for the namespace owner, this can be abused by an
> unprivileged user to effectively write to the init namespace's nf_log
> sysctls.
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-04 6:47 UTC|newest]
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2016-09-18 19:40 [PATCH] netfilter: fix namespace handling in nf_log_proc_dostring Jann Horn
2016-10-04 6:46 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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