Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:03:47 +0200 | From | Michal Kubecek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ethtool: fix a privilege escalation bug |
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:49:35AM -0500, Wenwen Wang wrote: > In dev_ethtool(), the eth command 'ethcmd' is firstly copied from the > use-space buffer 'useraddr' and checked to see whether it is > ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE. If yes, the sub-command 'sub_cmd' is further copied from > the user space. Otherwise, 'sub_cmd' is the same as 'ethcmd'. Next, > according to 'sub_cmd', a permission check is enforced through the function > ns_capable(). For example, the permission check is required if 'sub_cmd' is > ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE, but it is not necessary if 'sub_cmd' is > ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE, as suggested in the comment "Allow some commands to be > done by anyone". The following execution invokes different handlers > according to 'ethcmd'. Specifically, if 'ethcmd' is ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE, > ethtool_set_per_queue() is called. In ethtool_set_per_queue(), the kernel > object 'per_queue_opt' is copied again from the user-space buffer > 'useraddr' and 'per_queue_opt.sub_command' is used to determine which > operation should be performed. Given that the buffer 'useraddr' is in the > user space, a malicious user can race to change the sub-command between the > two copies. In particular, the attacker can supply ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE and > ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE to bypass the permission check in dev_ethtool(). Then > before ethtool_set_per_queue() is called, the attacker changes > ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE to ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE. In this way, the attacker can > bypass the permission check and execute ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE. > > This patch enforces a check in ethtool_set_per_queue() after the second > copy from 'useraddr'. If the sub-command is different from the one obtained > in the first copy in dev_ethtool(), an error code EINVAL will be returned. > > Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
I'm just not sure if "privilege escalation" is an appropriate term but at least some sources define it loosely enough to cover also a simple permission check bypass like this.
Michal Kubecek
> --- > net/core/ethtool.c | 8 ++++++-- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c > index c9993c6..ccb337e 100644 > --- a/net/core/ethtool.c > +++ b/net/core/ethtool.c > @@ -2462,13 +2462,17 @@ static int ethtool_set_per_queue_coalesce(struct net_device *dev, > return ret; > } > > -static int ethtool_set_per_queue(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr) > +static int ethtool_set_per_queue(struct net_device *dev, > + void __user *useraddr, u32 sub_cmd) > { > struct ethtool_per_queue_op per_queue_opt; > > if (copy_from_user(&per_queue_opt, useraddr, sizeof(per_queue_opt))) > return -EFAULT; > > + if (per_queue_opt.sub_command != sub_cmd) > + return -EINVAL; > + > switch (per_queue_opt.sub_command) { > case ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE: > return ethtool_get_per_queue_coalesce(dev, useraddr, &per_queue_opt); > @@ -2838,7 +2842,7 @@ int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr) > rc = ethtool_get_phy_stats(dev, useraddr); > break; > case ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE: > - rc = ethtool_set_per_queue(dev, useraddr); > + rc = ethtool_set_per_queue(dev, useraddr, sub_cmd); > break; > case ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS: > rc = ethtool_get_link_ksettings(dev, useraddr); > -- > 2.7.4 >
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