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Message-ID: <20070625105435.GD24777@faui01.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:54:35 +0200
From: Johannes Schlumberger <spjsschl@...d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc: Alexander Wuerstlein <snalwuer@....informatik.uni-erlangen.de>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arw@....name
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check files' signatures before doing suid/sgid [2/4]
Hi,
> >If a process uses read() it needs some executable and writable memory. We do
> >check for this in mprotect(). There is a problem with the i386-architecture,
> >because it allows execution of any readable page (except with newer
> >processors). But beyond that ugliness of i386, it should not be possible to
> >execute anything without us noticing it (hopefully).
>
> r and x together is not a problem IMHO.
It is, if you would want to have rw but can only get rwx.
regards,
Johannes
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Johannes Schlumberger Department of Computer Science IV
Martensstrasse 1 D-91058 Erlangen Germany University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~spjsschl
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