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From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: request: capabilities that allow users to drop privileges further
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:13:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031216141306.GB1117@admingilde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031215144809.A14552@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net>

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hi :)

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:48:09PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> >   * ptrace
> 
> drop CAP_SYS_PTRACE
that will only help agains ptracing foreign processes.
you can still debug your own ones.

so this does not help agains buffer overflows&co in ptrace


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-16 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-15 21:39 request: capabilities that allow users to drop privileges further Felix von Leitner
2003-12-15 22:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-15 22:55   ` Christian Borntraeger
2003-12-16 14:08   ` Martin Waitz
2003-12-15 22:34 ` Christian Borntraeger
2003-12-15 22:48 ` Chris Wright
2003-12-16 14:13   ` Martin Waitz [this message]
2003-12-17  1:30   ` Felix von Leitner
2003-12-17  1:41     ` Chris Wright
2003-12-16 13:27 ` James Morris

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