The point of the word 'reliable' is to check that the name we get
really does belong to the host in question - ie that both the
forward and reverse maps agree.
But the new code doesn't do that check at all. Rather it simply
maps the address to a name, then discards the address and maps the
name back to a list of addresses and uses that list of addresses as
"where the request came from" for permission checking.
This bug is exploitable via the following scenario and could allow an
attacker access to data that they shouldn't be able to access.
Suppose you export a filesystem to some subnet or FQDN and also to a
wildcard or netgroup, and I know the details of this (maybe
showmount -e tells me) Suppose further that I can get IP packets to
your server..
Then I create a reverse mapping for my ipaddress to a domain that I
own, say "black.hat.org", and a forward mapping from that domain to
my IP address, and one of your IP addresses.
Then I try to mount your filesystem. The IP address gets correctly
mapped to "black.hat.org" and then mapped to both my IP address and
your IP address.
Then you search through all of your exports and find that one of the
addresses: yours - is allowed to access the filesystem.
So you create an export based on the addrinfo you have which allows
my IP address the same access as your IP address.
Fix this by instead using the forward lookup of the hostname just to
verify that the original address is in the list. Then do a numeric
lookup using the address and stick the hostname in the ai_canonname.
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>