Re: [patch 0/8] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v4)

[Eric W. Biederman]

Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:25:32PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> The following extra security measures are taken for unprivileged
>> mounts:
>> 
>>  - usermounts are limited by a sysctl tunable
>>  - force "nosuid,nodev" mount options on the created mount
>
>  The original userspace "user=" solution also implies the "noexec"
>  option by default (you can override the default by "exec" option).
>  
>  It means the kernel based solution is not fully compatible ;-(

Why noexec?  Either it was a silly or arbitrary decision, or
our kernel design may be incomplete.

Now I can see not wanting to support executables if you are locking
down a system.  The classic don't execute a program from a CD just because
the CD was stuck in the drive problem.

So I can see how executing code from an untrusted source could prevent
exploitation of other problems, and we certainly don't want to do it
automatically.

Eric
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