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CVE Request: kernel ebtables perm check

From: dann frazier <dannf () dannf org>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:54:51 -0700

Has a CVE been assigned for this issue yet?

commit dce766af541f6605fa9889892c0280bab31c66ab
Author: Florian Westphal <fwestphal () astaro com>
Date:   Fri Jan 8 17:31:24 2010 +0100

    netfilter: ebtables: enforce CAP_NET_ADMIN
    
    normal users are currently allowed to set/modify ebtables rules.
    Restrict it to processes with CAP_NET_ADMIN.
    
    Note that this cannot be reproduced with unmodified ebtables
    binary
    because it uses SOCK_RAW.
    
    Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fwestphal () astaro com>
    Cc: stable () kernel org
    Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber () trash net>

Current thread:

CVE Request: kernel ebtables perm check dann frazier (Jan 13)
- Re: CVE Request: kernel ebtables perm check Eugene Teo (Jan 13)