linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ethtool: fix a privilege escalation bug

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Message-Id: <20181015.213918.1656394276439267836.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 15 Oct 2018 21:39:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     wang6495@....edu
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, f.fainelli@...il.com, keescook@...omium.org,
        andrew@...n.ch, ecree@...arflare.com, ilyal@...lanox.com,
        ynorov@...iumnetworks.com, alan.brady@...el.com,
        stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: fix a privilege escalation bug

From: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@....edu>
Date: Mon,  8 Oct 2018 10:49:35 -0500

> 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@....edu>

Applied and queued up for -stable.