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FreeBSD security notificat=============================================================================FreeBSD-SA-23:16.cap_net Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Incorrect libcap_net limitation list manipulation
Category: core
Module: libcap_net
Announced: 2023-11-08
Credits: Shawn Webb, Mariusz Zaborski
Affects: FreeBSD 13.2 and later
Corrected: 2023-11-06 19:19:04 UTC (stable/14, 14.0-STABLE)
2023-11-08 00:45:34 UTC (releng/14.0, 14.0-RC4-p1)
2023-11-06 19:19:54 UTC (stable/13, 13.2-STABLE)
2023-11-08 00:49:31 UTC (releng/13.2, 13.2-RELEASE-p5)
CVE Name: CVE-2023-5978
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following sections, please visit <URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/>.
I. Background
libcasper(3) allows Capsicum-sandboxed applications to define and use system
interfaces which would otherwise be disallowed, through implementing special
services. One of these services, libcap_net, enables networking capabilities
within the restriced environment.
II. Problem Description
Casper services allow limiting operations that a process can perform. Each
service maintains a specific list of permitted operations. Certain operations
can be further restricted, such as specifying which domain names can be
resolved. During the verification of limits, the service must ensure that the
new set of constraints is a subset of the previous one. In the case of the
cap_net service, the currently limited set of domain names was fetched
incorrectly.
III. Impact
In certain scenarios, if only a list of resolvable domain names was specified
without setting any other limitations, the application could submit a new list
of domains including include entries not previously in the list.
IV. Workaround
No workaround is available. Note that no FreeBSD base system software is
vulnerable to this issue.
V. Solution
Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or
release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date.
Perform one of the following:
1) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch:
Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the amd64, i386, or
(on FreeBSD 13 and later) arm64 platforms can be updated via the
freebsd-update(8) utility:
# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
# shutdown -r +10min "Rebooting for a security update"
2) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch:
The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable
FreeBSD release branches.
a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-23:16/cap_net.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-23:16/cap_net.patch.asc
# gpg --verify cap_net.patch.asc
b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root:
# cd /usr/src
# patch < /path/to/patch
c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as
described in <URL:https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/makeworld.html>.
Restart all daemons that use the library, or reboot the system.
VI. Correction details
This issue is corrected by the corresponding Git commit hash or Subversion
revision number in the following stable and release branches:
Branch/path Hash Revision
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
stable/14/ 765757c6301f stable/14-n265696
releng/14.0/ 5f4fc91cc87c releng/14.0-n265377
stable/13/ 114c6d9bef76 stable/13-n256672
releng/13.2/ acd860c3622d releng/13.2-n254640
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Run the following command to see which files were modified by a
particular commit:
# git show --stat <commit hash>
Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the hash:
<URL:https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=NNNNNN>
To determine the commit count in a working tree (for comparison against
nNNNNNN in the table above), run:
# git rev-list --count --first-parent HEAD
VII. References
<URL:https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5978>
The latest revision of this advisory is available at
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-23:16.cap_net.asc>
