Re: [PATCH] IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMApolicy

From: James Morris
Date: Thu May 21 2009 - 19:33:22 EST


On Thu, 21 May 2009, Eric Paris wrote:

> The IMA TCB policy is dangerous. A normal use can use all of a system's
> memory (which cannot be freed) simply by building and running lots of
> executables. The TCB policy is also nearly useless because logging in as root
> often causes a policy violation when dealing with utmp, thus rendering the
> measurements meaningless.

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next

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