** Description changed: - It is possible, by passing a netlink socket to a more privileged - executable and then fooling that executable into writing to the socket - data that happens to be valid netlink message, to do something that - privileged executable did not intend to do. + The Netlink implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.14.1 does not + provide a mechanism for authorizing socket operations based on the + opener of a socket, which allows local users to bypass intended access + restrictions and modify network configurations by using a Netlink socket + for the (1) stdout or (2) stderr of a setuid program. Break-Fix: - -
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