Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:15:08 +0300 | From | Michael Tokarev <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules |
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02.03.2011 00:33, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: > Since a8f80e8ff94ecba629542d9b4b5f5a8ee3eb565c any process with > CAP_NET_ADMIN may load any module from /lib/modules/. This doesn't mean > that CAP_NET_ADMIN is a superset of CAP_SYS_MODULE as modules are > limited to /lib/modules/**. However, CAP_NET_ADMIN capability shouldn't > allow anybody load any module not related to networking. > > This patch restricts an ability of autoloading modules to netdev modules > with explicit aliases. This fixes CVE-2011-1019. [] > Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/203 > > Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
This looks much saner :)
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
/mjt
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