Re: [PATCH] Enhanced Trusted Path Execution (TPE) Linux Security Module

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 6 Jan 2005, at 15:50, Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote:

> > The two biggest issues are 1) it's trivial to bypass:
> > $ /lib/ld.so /untrusted/path/to/program
> > and 2) that there's no (visible/vocal) user base calling for the 
> > feature.
>
> About the point 1), yesterday i wrote just a simple regression test
> (that can be found at the same place as the patch) and of course it
> bypasses, this is an old commented problem, Stephen suggested the use 
> of
> the mmap and mprotect hooks, so, i will have a look at them but i'm not
> sure on how to (really) prevent the dirty,old trick.
> About 2), just give it a chance, maybe it's useful and my work is not
> completely nonsense.

Well, I'm not a visible/vocal user base, but I do really like this TPE 
LSM module.
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