From: Serge Aleynikov <serge@hq.idt.net>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: non-critical security bug fix
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:11:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <452EAF8D.9040405@hq.idt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061012202926.GA5690@sergelap.austin.ibm.com>
Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Are you able to modify the source of the application you bought? If so,
> you can trivially fix it to do what you need by doing a cap_set_proc
> after the suid as I described before, i.e.
>
> ret = setuid();
> caps = cap_from_text("cap_net_raw=e");
> ret = cap_set_proc(caps);
>
> Is that an option?
Unfortunately that product doesn't come with sources. :-(
--
Serge Aleynikov
Routing R&D, IDT Telecom
Tel: +1 (973) 438-3436
Fax: +1 (973) 438-1464
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-12 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 18:58 non-critical security bug fix Serge Aleynikov
2006-10-12 19:06 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-10-12 19:25 ` Serge Aleynikov
2006-10-12 20:29 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-10-12 21:11 ` Serge Aleynikov [this message]
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