APPLIED/CMT[F]: [SRU Focal:oem-5.6 1/1] net/nfc/rawsock.c: add CAP_NET_RAW check.

Ian May ian.may at canonical.com
Tue Oct 6 12:51:55 UTC 2020


My bad!  I do see how I interpreted that wrong.  Makes sense and thanks for
the clarification.

Ian

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 3:03 AM Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <
cascardo at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:50:56AM +0200, Kleber Souza wrote:
> > Hi Ian,
> >
> > Please note that this patch was requested for focal/linux-oem-5.6 and
> > not for focal/linux. Cascardo likely noticed that this was already
> > queued for a focal/linux upstream stable update and hasn't explicitly
> > requested its inclusion.
> >
> >
> > Kleber
> >
>
> Yes, that was the case. The triager told me that it was pending on
> focal/linux,
> but needed on focal/linux-oem-5.6.
>
> The stable updates are really useful, they usually bring up lots of CVE
> fixes.
> Sometimes, they are wrong, as have recently happened, and sometimes we have
> bugs to track, hence my suggestion recently that we discuss how to deal
> with
> cases like when the stable updates trump our own backports.
>
> Cascardo.
>
> > On 03.10.20 00:50, Ian May wrote:
> > > This patch was applied in the following patchset:
> > >
> > >         UBUNTU: upstream stable to v5.4.59
> > >         BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1892417
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Ian
> > >
> > > On 2020-09-29 08:31:39 , Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> > >> From: Qingyu Li <ieatmuttonchuan at gmail.com>
> > >>
> > >> When creating a raw AF_NFC socket, CAP_NET_RAW needs to be checked
> first.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Qingyu Li <ieatmuttonchuan at gmail.com>
> > >> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> > >> (cherry picked from commit 26896f01467a28651f7a536143fe5ac8449d4041)
> > >> CVE-2020-26088
> > >> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
> > >> ---
> > >>  net/nfc/rawsock.c | 7 +++++--
> > >>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >>
> > >> diff --git a/net/nfc/rawsock.c b/net/nfc/rawsock.c
> > >> index ba5ffd3badd3..b5c867fe3232 100644
> > >> --- a/net/nfc/rawsock.c
> > >> +++ b/net/nfc/rawsock.c
> > >> @@ -332,10 +332,13 @@ static int rawsock_create(struct net *net,
> struct socket *sock,
> > >>    if ((sock->type != SOCK_SEQPACKET) && (sock->type != SOCK_RAW))
> > >>            return -ESOCKTNOSUPPORT;
> > >>
> > >> -  if (sock->type == SOCK_RAW)
> > >> +  if (sock->type == SOCK_RAW) {
> > >> +          if (!capable(CAP_NET_RAW))
> > >> +                  return -EPERM;
> > >>            sock->ops = &rawsock_raw_ops;
> > >> -  else
> > >> +  } else {
> > >>            sock->ops = &rawsock_ops;
> > >> +  }
> > >>
> > >>    sk = sk_alloc(net, PF_NFC, GFP_ATOMIC, nfc_proto->proto, kern);
> > >>    if (!sk)
> > >> --
> > >> 2.25.1
> > >>
> > >>
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> > >
> >
>
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