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* /proc/net/ip_conntrack permissions
@ 2004-06-02  2:13 Patrick McHardy
  2004-06-02  5:17 ` Willy Tarreau
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Patrick McHardy @ 2004-06-02  2:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Netfilter Development Mailinglist

I've added a patch to change /proc/net/ip_conntrack permissions
to 0440. It contains privileged information and shouldn't be
world readable. I was just wondering why this hasn't been done
before, does anyone know a good reason not to change it ?

Regards
Patrick

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* Re: /proc/net/ip_conntrack permissions
  2004-06-02  2:13 /proc/net/ip_conntrack permissions Patrick McHardy
@ 2004-06-02  5:17 ` Willy Tarreau
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Willy Tarreau @ 2004-06-02  5:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Patrick McHardy; +Cc: Netfilter Development Mailinglist

Hi Patrick,

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:13:45AM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> I've added a patch to change /proc/net/ip_conntrack permissions
> to 0440. It contains privileged information and shouldn't be
> world readable. I was just wondering why this hasn't been done
> before, does anyone know a good reason not to change it ?

Strange, but I too think it should be restricted, since it's a source of
easy DoS : "while true; do wc -l /p/n/ip_ct ; done" :-/

Regards,
Willy

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