This patch restricts the use of SO_ATTACH_FILTER (cBPF) on TCP sockets to users with CAP_NET_ADMIN capability. This blocks potential side-channel attack where an unprivileged application attaches a filter to leak TCP sequence/acknowledgment numbers. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Tamir Shahar Reported-by: Amit Klein Cc: Willem de Bruijn Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: Eduard Zingerman Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Cc: Song Liu Cc: Yonghong Song Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Fastabend Cc: Stanislav Fomichev --- net/core/sock.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c index d097025c116a863b29346c12470a9c81ec38ac56..cab041b57d286536cd4299c98f0d7d3bf7499501 100644 --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -1465,6 +1465,11 @@ int sk_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, case SO_ATTACH_FILTER: { struct sock_fprog fprog; + if (sk_is_tcp(sk) && + !sockopt_ns_capable(sock_net(sk)->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) { + ret = -EPERM; + break; + } ret = copy_bpf_fprog_from_user(&fprog, optval, optlen); if (!ret) ret = sk_attach_filter(&fprog, sk); -- 2.54.0.1032.g2f8565e1d1-goog