Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754957Ab1CBQEM (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:04:12 -0500 Received: from smtp.outflux.net ([198.145.64.163]:59714 "EHLO smtp.outflux.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752002Ab1CBQEL (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:04:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:01:52 -0800 From: Kees Cook To: Vasiliy Kulikov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mjt@tls.msk.ru, arnd@arndb.de, mirqus@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings , David Miller , kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, therbert@google.com, xiaosuo@gmail.com, jesse@nicira.com, eugene@redhat.com, dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules Message-ID: <20110302160152.GQ4669@outflux.net> References: <201102272122.52643.arnd@arndb.de> <4D6B6AE7.2050202@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <20110228095133.GA4351@albatros> <20110228.112349.104067277.davem@davemloft.net> <20110301194845.GA3533@albatros> <1299010390.2529.30.camel@bwh-desktop> <20110301213313.GA6507@albatros> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110301213313.GA6507@albatros> Organization: Canonical X-HELO: www.outflux.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 630 Lines: 20 On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:33:13AM +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: > This patch restricts an ability of autoloading modules to netdev modules > with explicit aliases. This fixes CVE-2011-1019. > ... > Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov Looks good; thanks for sorting this out. Acked-by: Kees Cook -Kees -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/