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Message-ID: <20060908012201.GA14280@lina.inka.de> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 03:22:01 +0200 From: Bernd Eckenfels <be-mail2006@...a.inka.de> To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: patch to make Linux capabilities into something useful (v 0.3.1) On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:00:28AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > If attacker already has priviledge foo, he can just go use it. He does > not have to exec() poor program not expecting to get priviledge foo, > then abusing it. It is not about attackers. It is about normal usage. If you spawn a program, it might behave wrong since it does not know that it is priveledged. For example a network daemon might start a child process which interacts with the user, and forgets to drop priveldges for it. > Sanitized here means "all regular capabilities set, all others > cleared". Yes, however I thought this was exactly what the patch is not doing? Gruss Bernd -- (OO) -- Bernd_Eckenfels@Mörscher_Strasse_8.76185Karlsruhe.de -- ( .. ) ecki@...ka.de,linux.de,debian.org} http://www.eckes.org/ o--o 1024D/E383CD7E eckes@...Net v:+497211603874 f:+49721151516129 (O____O) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl! - 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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