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From: Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: capget() overflows buffers.
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 14:01:46 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211515306.20341.19.camel@shrek.rexursive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080523020638.GF30402@sequoia.sous-sol.org>

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 19:06 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:

> 1) switch to using the libcap interface, arguably the best sol'n since
> you know longer have to directly care about the kernel interface.
> only drawback is the additional library dependency.

I'm thinking Squid folks may want to pick this up long term.

> 2) force head->version to the older version, something like:
> 
> #ifdef  _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1
>   head->version = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1;
> #else
>   head->version = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION;
> #endif
> 
> this has the drawback of always using the older 32bit caps, probably
> fine here, since you're not using new caps.

Probably the best short term suggestion. I will post this in my original
bug report.

Thank you for your suggestions!

-- 
Bojan


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-23  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-22 14:04 capget() overflows buffers Dave Jones
2008-05-22 17:58 ` Chris Wright
2008-05-22 20:53   ` Chris Wright
2008-05-22 22:52     ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-05-22 23:37       ` Chris Wright
2008-05-23  7:09         ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-05-23 15:57           ` Chris Wright
2008-05-24  6:25             ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-05-24  8:07               ` Chris Wright
2008-05-27  1:17                 ` [PATCH] security: was "Re: capget() overflows buffers." Andrew G. Morgan
2008-05-27 21:42                   ` Chris Wright
2008-05-28  3:33                   ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-23 18:26           ` capget() overflows buffers Chris Wright
2008-05-24  0:02             ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-05-24  1:09               ` Chris Wright
2008-05-24  4:40                 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-05-24  8:17                   ` Chris Wright
2008-05-23  1:20     ` Bojan Smojver
2008-05-23  2:06       ` Chris Wright
2008-05-23  4:01         ` Bojan Smojver [this message]
2008-05-22 21:20   ` Bojan Smojver

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