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| author | Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> | 2006-04-05 00:53:43 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2006-04-19 23:25:38 +0200 |
| commit | a417016d1a07e6df0621dbb2926da82642eca823 (patch) | |
| tree | 96384d34c27abae25f37b5b15b03e327b4a1a796 /net/core | |
| parent | [PATCH] wireless/atmel: send WEXT scan completion events (diff) | |
| download | linux-a417016d1a07e6df0621dbb2926da82642eca823.tar.xz linux-a417016d1a07e6df0621dbb2926da82642eca823.zip | |
[PATCH] wext: Fix IWENCODEEXT security permissions
Check the permissions when user-space try to read the
encryption parameters via SIOCGIWENCODEEXT. This is trivial and
probably should go in 2.6.17...
Bug was found by Brian Eaton <eaton.lists@gmail.com>, thanks !
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 83231a27ae02..3bad1afc89fa 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -2698,7 +2698,8 @@ int dev_ioctl(unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg) /* If command is `set a parameter', or * `get the encoding parameters', check if * the user has the right to do it */ - if (IW_IS_SET(cmd) || cmd == SIOCGIWENCODE) { + if (IW_IS_SET(cmd) || cmd == SIOCGIWENCODE + || cmd == SIOCGIWENCODEEXT) { if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; } |