CVE-2024-46695

/// Technical description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

selinux,smack: don't bypass permissions check in inode_setsecctx hook

Marek Gresko reports that the root user on an NFS client is able to

change the security labels on files on an NFS filesystem that is

exported with root squashing enabled.

The end of the kerneldoc comment for __vfs_setxattr_noperm() states:

* This function requires the caller to lock the inode's i_mutex before it

* is executed. It also assumes that the caller will make the appropriate

* permission checks.

nfsd_setattr() does do permissions checking via fh_verify() and

nfsd_permission(), but those don't do all the same permissions checks

that are done by security_inode_setxattr() and its related LSM hooks do.

Since nfsd_setattr() is the only consumer of security_inode_setsecctx(),

simplest solution appears to be to replace the call to

__vfs_setxattr_noperm() with a call to __vfs_setxattr_locked(). This

fixes the above issue and has the add

/// Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

/// References