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netfilter: nfnetlink_cthelper: Add missing permission checks
authorKevin Cernekee <cernekee@chromium.org>
Sun, 3 Dec 2017 20:12:45 +0000 (12:12 -0800)
committerBrian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Tue, 8 May 2018 20:45:38 +0000 (16:45 -0400)
commit6adae5f12510b859a3ac88333515bacb5bbd8408
treec5f3827a8d9c715c0d265d916371abe34957da4d
parent296312fbbf6738539c0ca53bd09e3867d763e555
netfilter: nfnetlink_cthelper: Add missing permission checks

The capability check in nfnetlink_rcv() verifies that the caller
has CAP_NET_ADMIN in the namespace that "owns" the netlink socket.
However, nfnl_cthelper_list 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:

    $ nfct helper list
    nfct v1.4.4: netlink error: Operation not permitted
    $ vpnns -- nfct helper list
    {
            .name = ftp,
            .queuenum = 0,
            .l3protonum = 2,
            .l4protonum = 6,
            .priv_data_len = 24,
            .status = enabled,
    };

Add capable() checks in nfnetlink_cthelper, as this is cleaner than
trying to generalize the solution.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 4b380c42f7d00a395feede754f0bc2292eebe6e5)

Orabug: 27260771
CVE: CVE-2017-17448

Signed-off-by: Shan Hai <shan.hai@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jack Vogel <jack.vogel@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c