From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, mirqus@gmail.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
therbert@google.com, xiaosuo@gmail.com, jesse@nicira.com,
kees.cook@canonical.com, eugene@redhat.com,
dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:15:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6DEE7C.6020700@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110301213313.GA6507@albatros>
02.03.2011 00:33, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Since a8f80e8ff94ecba629542d9b4b5f5a8ee3eb565c any process with
> CAP_NET_ADMIN may load any module from /lib/modules/. This doesn't mean
> that CAP_NET_ADMIN is a superset of CAP_SYS_MODULE as modules are
> limited to /lib/modules/**. However, CAP_NET_ADMIN capability shouldn't
> allow anybody load any module not related to networking.
>
> This patch restricts an ability of autoloading modules to netdev modules
> with explicit aliases. This fixes CVE-2011-1019.
[]
> Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/203
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
This looks much saner :)
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
/mjt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-02 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-24 15:12 module loading with CAP_NET_ADMIN Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-24 16:34 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-25 12:30 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-25 15:14 ` [PATCH] don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-25 17:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-02-25 17:47 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-25 17:48 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-25 18:47 ` David Miller
2011-02-25 19:02 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-25 19:05 ` David Miller
2011-02-25 19:07 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-25 19:16 ` David Miller
2011-02-25 19:30 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-25 19:43 ` David Miller
2011-02-25 19:53 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-25 20:37 ` David Miller
2011-02-25 20:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-25 20:59 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-02-27 20:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-28 9:29 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-02-28 9:51 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-28 19:23 ` David Miller
2011-03-01 19:48 ` [PATCH] net: " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-01 20:13 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-03-01 21:33 ` [PATCH v2] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-02 7:15 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2011-03-09 22:06 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-09 22:09 ` David Miller
2011-03-09 22:53 ` James Morris
2011-03-10 9:49 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-02 16:01 ` Kees Cook
2011-03-02 19:39 ` Jake Edge
2011-03-02 19:43 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-02 19:49 ` Jake Edge
2011-03-02 20:18 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-02 20:38 ` Jake Edge
2011-03-02 20:40 ` Jake Edge
2011-03-22 20:47 ` Eric Paris
2011-03-22 20:47 ` Eric Paris
2011-03-24 15:37 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-03-24 18:03 ` Eric Paris
2011-03-24 18:33 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-03-24 20:26 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-03-24 21:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-24 21:46 ` David Miller
2011-03-24 21:57 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-03-24 22:15 ` Eric Paris
2011-03-24 21:57 ` Greg KH
2011-03-26 10:35 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-27 11:44 ` [PATCH] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-27 23:18 ` David Miller
2011-02-27 23:19 ` David Miller
2011-02-25 15:29 ` module loading with CAP_NET_ADMIN Michael Tokarev
2011-02-25 15:57 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
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