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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop Posix Capabilities
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:46:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1254476811.20362.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909251647.15440.sgrubb@redhat.com>

Hi Steve,

> The following patch against the 4.54 codebase drops posix capabilities
> after startup so that the bluetooth daemon is less of a threat to the
> system should there be any way to compromise it. The retained 
> capabilities was compared to selinux policy to make sure that its 
> roughly the same. It uses the libcap-ng library which allows patches
> for dropping capabilities to be much smaller.

so I went through the patch and applied it with using pkg-config
support. So if you would update libcap-ng in Fedora 11, I would be able
to test it. Otherwise it has to wait until I actually switch to the next
release ;)

Regards

Marcel



      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-02  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-25 20:47 [PATCH] Drop Posix Capabilities Steve Grubb
2009-09-25 21:35 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-09-26 14:29   ` Steve Grubb
2009-09-27 20:31     ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-09-28 21:31       ` Steve Grubb
2009-09-28 23:40         ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-09-29 13:00           ` Steve Grubb
2009-09-29 18:03             ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-10-02  9:46 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]

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