netdev - Re: RFC: disablenetwork facility. (v4)

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Message-ID: <20091227180612.GG11737@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:06:12 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Michael Stone <michael@...top.org>
Cc:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, David Lang <david@...g.hm>,
	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>,
	Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@...il.com>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	"C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@...ott.net>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Bernie Innocenti <bernie@...ewiz.org>,
	Mark Seaborn <mrs@...hic-beasts.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Samir Bellabes <sam@...ack.fr>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: disablenetwork facility. (v4)


> >I thought that disabling network was a completely
> >unprivileged operation?  And subsequently executing a setuid-root
> >application won't reset the flag.
> 
> Correct and correct for the current patches.

Then you are introducing a security problem. User can now mess with
setuid0 binary.

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