Re: ls -l /proc/1/exe -> Permission denied

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Sun Jul 20 2014 - 16:00:13 EST


Am 20.07.2014 21:15, schrieb Joakim Tjernlund:
> Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote on 2014/07/20 14:05:41:
>>
>> Am 20.07.2014 13:51, schrieb Andreas Schwab:
>>> Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>> Do you have an example?
>>>
>>> proc symlinks are special because they actually resolve to the inode.
>>
>> Ah. If an attacker manages the kernel to follow the symlink he could
>> indirectly access that file.
>> Thanks for pointing this out!
>
> That is a big if, I read this as you don't trust the kernels impl.
> of proc sym links so paper over this with denying all other to read
> trivial
> data such as the exe sym link.

Feel free to propose a solution for that. :-)

Thanks,
//richard
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