This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: xt_osf: Add missing permission checks
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
netfilter-xt_osf-add-missing-permission-checks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 916a27901de01446bcf57ecca4783f6cff493309 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 15:42:41 -0800
Subject: netfilter: xt_osf: Add missing permission checks
From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 916a27901de01446bcf57ecca4783f6cff493309 upstream.
The capability check in nfnetlink_rcv() verifies that the caller
has CAP_NET_ADMIN in the namespace that "owns" the netlink socket.
However, xt_osf_fingers is shared by all net namespaces on the
system. An unprivileged user can create user and net namespaces
in which he holds CAP_NET_ADMIN to bypass the netlink_net_capable()
check:
vpnns -- nfnl_osf -f /tmp/pf.os
vpnns -- nfnl_osf -f /tmp/pf.os -d
These non-root operations successfully modify the systemwide OS
fingerprint list. Add new capable() checks so that they can't.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/xt_osf.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_osf.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_osf.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <linux/if.h>
#include <linux/inetdevice.h>
#include <linux/ip.h>
@@ -69,6 +70,9 @@ static int xt_osf_add_callback(struct ne
struct xt_osf_finger *kf = NULL, *sf;
int err = 0;
+ if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+ return -EPERM;
+
if (!osf_attrs[OSF_ATTR_FINGER])
return -EINVAL;
@@ -113,6 +117,9 @@ static int xt_osf_remove_callback(struct
struct xt_osf_finger *sf;
int err = -ENOENT;
+ if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+ return -EPERM;
+
if (!osf_attrs[OSF_ATTR_FINGER])
return -EINVAL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cernekee@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/netfilter-xt_osf-add-missing-permission-checks.patch
queue-4.9/netfilter-nfnetlink_cthelper-add-missing-permission-checks.patch