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
next prev parent 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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