From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] execve argument logging
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:23:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604211623.39536.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604212019.k3LKJ9jr015983@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Friday 21 April 2006 16:19, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Does this allow an attacker to DoS the audit log by creating a fork/exec
> loop intentionally invoking a totally duff binary, but that includes a very
> long argument?
I personally haven't tried. Try it and let us know if you can DoS the machine.
> Maybe a "first 32/64 bytes of each argument" limit is needed? Or is there
> one there and I missed it?
There's no limit other than what the kernel imposes.
-Steve
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-21 11:33 [PATCH] execve argument logging Alexander Viro
2006-04-21 13:20 ` Steve Grubb
2006-04-21 20:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-04-21 20:22 ` Alexander Viro
2006-04-21 21:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-04-21 23:44 ` Steve Grubb
2006-04-22 1:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-04-21 20:23 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
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