Re: [PATCH 2/2] airo: Add missing CAP_NET_ADMIN check in AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Jan 23 2020 - 05:04:19 EST


From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:07:28 +1100

> The driver for Cisco Aironet 4500 and 4800 series cards (airo.c),
> implements AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE in airo_ioctl().
>
> The ioctl handler copies an aironet_ioctl struct from userspace, which
> includes a command. Some of the commands are handled in readrids(),
> where the user controlled command is converted into a driver-internal
> value called "ridcode".
>
> There are two command values, AIROGWEPKTMP and AIROGWEPKNV, which
> correspond to ridcode values of RID_WEP_TEMP and RID_WEP_PERM
> respectively. These commands both have checks that the user has
> CAP_NET_ADMIN, with the comment that "Only super-user can read WEP
> keys", otherwise they return -EPERM.
>
> However there is another command value, AIRORRID, that lets the user
> specify the ridcode value directly, with no other checks. This means
> the user can bypass the CAP_NET_ADMIN check on AIROGWEPKTMP and
> AIROGWEPKNV.
>
> Fix it by moving the CAP_NET_ADMIN check out of the command handling
> and instead do it later based on the ridcode. That way regardless of
> whether the ridcode is set via AIROGWEPKTMP or AIROGWEPKNV, or passed
> in using AIRORID, we always do the CAP_NET_ADMIN check.
>
> Found by Ilja by code inspection, not tested as I don't have the
> required hardware.
>
> Reported-by: Ilja Van Sprundel <ivansprundel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable.