Bug 1882594 (CVE-2020-25284) - CVE-2020-25284 kernel: incomplete permission checking for access to rbd devices
Summary: CVE-2020-25284 kernel: incomplete permission checking for access to rbd devices
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2020-25284
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1882595 1887327 1887328 1887329 1887330
Blocks: 1882593
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-09-25 04:45 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2023-05-12 21:18 UTC (History)
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A flaw was found in the capabilities check of the rados block device functionality in the Linux kernel. Incorrect capability checks could alllow a local user with root priviledges (but no capabilities) to add or remove Rados Block Devices from the system.
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Last Closed: 2021-05-18 20:36:25 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2021:2538 0 None None None 2021-06-23 18:06:06 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2021:2541 0 None None None 2021-06-24 11:51:16 UTC

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-09-25 04:45:37 UTC 
The rbd block device driver in drivers/block/rbd.c in the Linux kernel used incomplete permission checking for access to rbd devices, which could be leveraged by local attackers to map or unmap rbd block devices.

References:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f44d04e696feaf13d192d942c4f14ad2e117065a
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-09-25 04:46:26 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1882595]
Comment 3 Justin M. Forbes 2020-09-25 12:33:36 UTC 
This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.8.10 stable kernel updates.
Comment 6 Wade Mealing 2020-10-08 04:00:48 UTC 
Mitigation:


As the rbd module can be loaded by a priviledged user or process, its use can be disabled by preventing the module from loading with the following instructions:

# echo "install rbd /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.d/disable-rdb.conf 
 
The system will need to be restarted if the modules isloaded. In most circumstances, the rbd kernel modules will be unable to be unloaded while in use.

If the system requires this module to work correctly, (Such as a CEPH node) this mitigation may not be suitable.

If you need further assistance, see KCS article https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 or contact Red Hat Global Support Services.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 13:20:28 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:1578 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1578
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 14:40:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:1739 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1739
Comment 11 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-05-18 20:36:25 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-25284
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