Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-17448  

It has been discovered that net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.4 does not require the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for new, get, and del operations, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions because the nfnl_cthelper_list data structure is shared across all net namespaces.

Severity High

Remote No

Type Access restriction bypass

Description

It has been discovered that net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.4 does not require the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for new, get, and del operations, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions because the nfnl_cthelper_list data structure is shared across all net namespaces.

AVG-572 linux-zen 4.14.11-1 High Vulnerable

AVG-566 linux-lts 4.9.74-1 High Vulnerable

AVG-574 linux-hardened 4.14.7.a-1 4.14.11.a-1 High Fixed FS#56832

AVG-567 linux 4.14.11-1 4.16-1 High Fixed

05 Jan 2018 ASA-201801-4 AVG-574 linux-hardened High multiple issues

https://git.kernel.org/linus/4b380c42f7d00a395feede754f0bc2292eebe6e5

4.15