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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-08-21 06:21:17 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-08-21 14:53:01 -0700
commite0e3cea46d31d23dc40df0a49a7a2c04fe8edfea (patch)
treed3a95cc25dd504fecc807dbb8a9e9c3501c90edf /include/net
parenta9915a1b52df52ad87f3b33422da95cf25372f09 (diff)
af_netlink: force credentials passing [CVE-2012-3520]
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>
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 079d7887dac..7dc0854f0b3 100644
--- a/include/net/scm.h
+++ b/include/net/scm.h
@@ -70,9 +70,11 @@ 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;