Re: [PATCH] net: explicitly whitelist sysctls for unpriv namespaces

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 22:58:20 +0200

> There were two net sysctls that could be written from unprivileged net
> namespaces, but weren't actually namespaced.
> 
> To fix the existing issues and prevent stuff this from happening again in
> the future, explicitly whitelist permitted sysctls.
> 
> Note: The current whitelist is "allow everything that was previously
> accessible and that doesn't obviously modify global state".
> 
> On my system, this patch just removes the write permissions for
> ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max, which would have been usable for a local
> DoS. With a different config, the ipv4/vs/debug_level sysctl would also be
> affected.
> 
> Maximum impact of this seems to be local DoS, and it's a fairly large
> commit, so I'm sending this publicly directly.
> 
> An alternative (and much smaller) fix would be to just change the
> permissions of the two files in question to be 0444 in non-privileged
> namespaces, but I believe that this solution is slightly less error-prone.
> If you think I should switch to the simple fix, let me know.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>

I think this is fine for net-next and will apply it there.

But for 'net' and 'stable', please also submit the simpler fix.

Thanks.