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Unverified Commit e9383b6a authored by Dmitry Ivanov's avatar Dmitry Ivanov Committed by Harsh Shandilya
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nl80211: check netlink protocol in socket release notification



commit 8f815cdde3e550e10c2736990d791f60c2ce43eb upstream.

A non-privileged user can create a netlink socket with the same port_id as
used by an existing open nl80211 netlink socket (e.g. as used by a hostapd
process) with a different protocol number.

Closing this socket will then lead to the notification going to nl80211's
socket release notification handler, and possibly cause an action such as
removing a virtual interface.

Fix this issue by checking that the netlink protocol is NETLINK_GENERIC.
Since generic netlink has no notifier chain of its own, we can't fix the
problem more generically.

Fixes: 026331c4 ("cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action frames")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Ivanov <dima@ubnt.com>
[rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
parent b23812a5
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