Re: secure computing for 2.6.7

[chris]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> sounds like yes. However what I'm doing with the seccomp [2] mode is
> much order of magnitude simpler and less generic, so I don't expect it
> will be useful to many apps. When you mention in your document that

Hi Andrea,

Do you have plans to generalize seccomp into somelike like a "syscall
firewall"? This _would_ be useful to many apps, and provide good security
benefits - for example, vsftpd does not need most of the previously-buggy
syscalls such as sysctl(), mremap() and execve(). But it does need more
than just read(), write() and exit()!

Cheers
Chris
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