Re: [PATCH] security: protect legacy apps from insufficient privilege

[Andrew G. Morgan]

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Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
| Quoting Andrew G. Morgan (morgan@xxxxxxxxxx):
| This is a fail-safe additional feature for filesystem capability support.
|
| Cheers
|
| Andrew

~From 916b252d3b631214acea6df6c61e94ce6770fdf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 23:17:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Protect legacy applications from executing with
insufficient privilege.
[..]

| Assuming (as it appears) the only change from last time is that you
| dropped the part changing cap_bprm_apply_creds() contraints for a
| ptraced process, then

Yes. That's the only material change. I also added a comment explaining
the "strange" (since it caused some concern last time around) cap_bset |
cap_inheritable bit...

| Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>

| I'll try to give it a good test-run next week.

Thanks

Andrew
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