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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] HARDEN_VM86
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:12:32 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110619141232.GA3444@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110615143844.GB32753@openwall.com>

Solar,

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 18:38 +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> BTW, a related syscall is modify_ldt(2).  You could want to research
> what programs use it, and consider restricting it as well.  Perhaps with
> a separate sysctl?

It starts to look like seccomp v2.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/833539/focus=833864

- but with capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) instead of just deny and static
syscalls list.  Will Drewry is trying to push his limiting patch with
ftrace-like syntax restrictions, but (a) it is not yet applied and (b)
it is not inherited by execve's:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/12/184

If it was not limited to one task it would serve our needs :(


-- 
Vasiliy

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-19 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-14  8:35 [kernel-hardening] HARDEN_VM86 Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-06-15 14:38 ` Solar Designer
2011-06-15 15:38   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-06-16 14:26     ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-06-19 14:12   ` Vasiliy Kulikov [this message]

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