From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: torvalds@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] disallow modular capabilities
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:00:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050102200032.GA8623@lst.de> (raw)
There's been a bugtraq report about a root exploit with modular
capabilities LSM support out for more than a week.
This patch fixes it the hard way by disallowing to build the code
modular. In fact I think allowing modular security policies is a
really, really bad idea because loading it after boot loses far
too much state. Would you take a patch killing the exports in
security/ ?
--- 1.10/security/Kconfig 2004-10-20 10:37:08 +02:00
+++ edited/security/Kconfig 2005-01-02 20:50:35 +01:00
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
config SECURITY_CAPABILITIES
- tristate "Default Linux Capabilities"
+ bool "Default Linux Capabilities"
depends on SECURITY
help
This enables the "default" Linux capabilities functionality.
next reply other threads:[~2005-01-02 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-02 20:00 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-01-02 20:01 ` [PATCH] disallow modular capabilities Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-02 20:28 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-02 20:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-02 20:47 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-02 22:36 ` David Meybohm
2005-01-02 23:30 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-03 0:21 ` David Meybohm
2005-01-03 0:32 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-03 14:38 ` Florian Weimer
2005-01-03 15:52 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-04 20:24 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-04 21:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-04 21:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-04 21:31 ` Chris Wright
2005-01-04 21:09 ` Lee Revell
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