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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-08-21 06:21:17 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-10-02 10:38:55 -0700
commit7d34ab836a0130db7643b55eb8713726ef704b52 (patch)
tree7857fb34cb64f6d93d2deb339acb833bab0a8949 /net
parentc182b9556632ce565dc7ecbb49759334628f75bb (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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c2
-rw-r--r--net/unix/af_unix.c4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index b3025a603d5..0e677600538 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
if (NULL == siocb->scm)
siocb->scm = &scm;
- err = scm_send(sock, msg, siocb->scm);
+ err = scm_send(sock, msg, siocb->scm, true);
if (err < 0)
return err;
diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index 641f2e47f16..9aa708c25f8 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
@@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ static int unix_dgram_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
if (NULL == siocb->scm)
siocb->scm = &tmp_scm;
wait_for_unix_gc();
- err = scm_send(sock, msg, siocb->scm);
+ err = scm_send(sock, msg, siocb->scm, false);
if (err < 0)
return err;
@@ -1617,7 +1617,7 @@ static int unix_stream_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
if (NULL == siocb->scm)
siocb->scm = &tmp_scm;
wait_for_unix_gc();
- err = scm_send(sock, msg, siocb->scm);
+ err = scm_send(sock, msg, siocb->scm, false);
if (err < 0)
return err;