[34-longterm 124/209] econet: fix CVE-2010-3850

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Thu Apr 14 2011 - 14:20:37 EST


From: Phil Blundell <philb@xxxxxxx>

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| This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. |
| If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.|
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commit 16c41745c7b92a243d0874f534c1655196c64b74 upstream.

Add missing check for capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) in SIOCSIFADDR operation.

Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <philb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/econet/af_econet.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/econet/af_econet.c b/net/econet/af_econet.c
index 8170acb..cd62e27 100644
--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
+++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c
@@ -661,6 +661,9 @@ static int ec_dev_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
err = 0;
switch (cmd) {
case SIOCSIFADDR:
+ if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+ return -EPERM;
+
edev = dev->ec_ptr;
if (edev == NULL) {
/* Magic up a new one. */
--
1.7.4.4

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