Thread (44 messages) 44 messages, 13 authors, 2011-03-26

Re: [PATCH v2] net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules

From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-02 16:04:12
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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 <redacted>
Looks good; thanks for sorting this out.

Acked-by: Kees Cook <redacted>

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
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