From: Jean Tourrilhes Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:47:26 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] wext: Fix RtNetlink ENCODE security permissions X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc1~36375^2~10^2 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=848ef8555296f25d9226d3bc43ce4028835ed633;p=kernel%2Fkernel-generic.git [PATCH] wext: Fix RtNetlink ENCODE security permissions I've just realised that the RtNetlink code does not check the permission for SIOCGIWENCODE and SIOCGIWENCODEEXT, which means that any user can read the encryption keys. The fix is trivial and should go in 2.6.17 alonside the two other patch I sent you last week. Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- diff --git a/net/core/wireless.c b/net/core/wireless.c index 81d6995..d2bc72d 100644 --- a/net/core/wireless.c +++ b/net/core/wireless.c @@ -1726,6 +1726,14 @@ int wireless_rtnetlink_get(struct net_device * dev, if(!IW_IS_GET(request->cmd)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; + /* If command is `get the encoding parameters', check if + * the user has the right to do it */ + if (request->cmd == SIOCGIWENCODE || + request->cmd == SIOCGIWENCODEEXT) { + if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + } + /* Special cases */ if(request->cmd == SIOCGIWSTATS) /* Get Wireless Stats */