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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ebtables: enforce CAP_NET_ADMIN
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:37:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B461BE3.6050200@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1262715967-25274-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de>

Florian Westphal wrote:
> normal users are currently allowed to set/modify ebtables rules.
> Restrict it to processes with CAP_NET_ADMIN.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fwestphal@astaro.com>
> ---
>  Note that this cannot be reproduced with
>  unmodified ebtables binary because it uses SOCK_RAW.

Unbelievable that this went unnoticed for so long. Applied and
queued for -stable, thanks a lot Florian.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-01-07 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-05 18:26 [PATCH] netfilter: ebtables: enforce CAP_NET_ADMIN Florian Westphal
2010-01-07 17:37 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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