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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:59:28 +0800 From: Eugene Teo <eteo@...hat.com> To: 7eggert@....de CC: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Subject: Re: Require mmap handler for a.out executables Bodo Eggert wrote: > Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org> wrote: > >> with the nasty /proc privilege escalation (CVE-2006-3626) it became >> clear that we need to do something more to better protect us against >> people exploiting stuff in /proc. Besides the don't allow chmod stuff, >> Eugene also proposed to depend the a.out execution on the existence of >> the mmap handler. Since we are doing the same for ELF, this makes >> totally sense to me. > > Can shell scripts or binfmt_misc be exploited, too? Even if not, I'd > additionally force noexec, nosuid on proc and sysfs mounts. Right. That's why we do not allow chmod() /proc/*/*/* files. http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6d76fa58b050044994fe25f8753b8023f2b36737 Eugene -- eteo redhat.com ph: +65 6490 4142 http://www.kernel.org/~eugeneteo gpg fingerprint: 47B9 90F6 AE4A 9C51 37E0 D6E1 EA84 C6A2 58DF 8823 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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