Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add support for O_MAYEXEC

Florian Weimer
2019-09-06T18:57:29Z

* Steve Grubb:

> Now with LD_AUDIT
> $ LD_AUDIT=/home/sgrubb/test/openflags/strip-flags.so.0 strace ./test 2>&1 | grep passwd
> openat(3, "passwd", O_RDONLY) = 4
>
> No O_CLOEXEC flag.

I think you need to explain in detail why you consider this a problem.

With LD_PRELOAD and LD_AUDIT, you can already do anything, including
scanning other loaded objects for a system call instruction and jumping
to that (in case a security module in the kernel performs a PC check to
confer additional privileges).

Thanks,
Florian