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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-08-21 06:21:17 +0000
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2012-09-19 15:04:55 +0100
commitdc77000f6fa5f7dd5eac1d02fa7812a131a67b89 (patch)
tree80e0cbe4363ac62dfad3188726920f75753202a7 /include/net
parent1b048ea7242555f91066228ef136ba299f4ae567 (diff)
af_netlink: force credentials passing [CVE-2012-3520]
[ Upstream commit e0e3cea46d31d23dc40df0a49a7a2c04fe8edfea ] Pablo Neira Ayuso discovered that avahi and potentially NetworkManager accept spoofed Netlink messages because of a kernel bug. The kernel passes all-zero SCM_CREDENTIALS ancillary data to the receiver if the sender did not provide such data, instead of not including any such data at all or including the correct data from the peer (as it is the case with AF_UNIX). This bug was introduced in commit 16e572626961 (af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIALS by default) This patch forces passing credentials for netlink, as before the regression. Another fix would be to not add SCM_CREDENTIALS in netlink messages if not provided by the sender, but it might break some programs. With help from Florian Weimer & Petr Matousek This issue is designated as CVE-2012-3520 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/scm.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/scm.h b/include/net/scm.h
index d456f4c71a3..0c0017ce23b 100644
--- a/include/net/scm.h
+++ b/include/net/scm.h
@@ -71,9 +71,11 @@ static __inline__ void scm_destroy(struct scm_cookie *scm)
}
static __inline__ int scm_send(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
- struct scm_cookie *scm)
+ struct scm_cookie *scm, bool forcecreds)
{
memset(scm, 0, sizeof(*scm));
+ if (forcecreds)
+ scm_set_cred(scm, task_tgid(current), current_cred());
unix_get_peersec_dgram(sock, scm);
if (msg->msg_controllen <= 0)
return 0;