linux-kernel - Re: AppArmor FAQ

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Message-Id: <E1HebEV-0004m9-00@calista.eckenfels.net>
Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:19:51 +0200
From:	Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AppArmor FAQ

In article <Line.LNX.4.64.0704180935100.25495@...amei> you wrote:
> Perhaps -- until your httpd is compromised via a buffer overflow or 
> simply misbehaves due to a software or configuration flaw, then the 
> assumptions being made about its use of pathnames and their security 
> properties are out the window.

Hu? Even a compromised httpd (especially a compromised httpd) is bound to
the app armor policies. This means it cannot (for example) write to
/var/www/* - if it never needed to at normal/profiling time.

Gruss
Bernd
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