From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kenneth.w.chen@intel.com, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: disable-cap-mlock
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 19:49:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040401174910.GS18585@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040401174405.GG791@holomorphy.com>
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:44:05AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I'm aware it does some very unintelligent things to the security model,
> e.g. anyone with fs-level access to these things can basically escalate
> their capabilities to "everything". Maybe some kind of big fat warning
> is in order.
a similar issue happens with the disable-cap-mlock, but it gives only
mlock to the guy with fs-level fsuid = 0 access, so the security
implications are greatly lower, no way to do anything really bad with
just access to mlock (DoS is the very worst scenario, and it's not very
different from swapoff -a anyways, or again not very different from
filling the swap enterely as far as security is concerned).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-01 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-01 13:59 disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 14:12 ` disable-cap-mlock Martin Zwickel
2004-04-01 16:48 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 16:59 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:11 ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 17:16 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:34 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:38 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:42 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:37 ` disable-cap-mlock Stephen Smalley
2004-04-01 17:44 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-04-01 17:51 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 18:12 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:52 ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 17:54 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 18:47 ` disable-cap-mlock Stephen Smalley
2004-04-01 19:26 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 20:23 ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 21:13 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 21:31 ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 18:34 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 18:49 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 18:52 ` disable-cap-mlock Chen, Kenneth W
2004-04-01 18:59 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 19:27 ` disable-cap-mlock James Morris
2004-04-02 10:39 ` disable-cap-mlock Pavel Machek
2004-04-02 23:44 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 19:44 ` disable-cap-mlock Rik van Riel
2004-04-01 19:52 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 22:36 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 22:43 ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 23:08 ` disable-cap-mlock Rik van Riel
2004-04-01 23:26 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 0:59 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-01 22:29 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 1:07 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02 1:18 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 1:30 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02 1:35 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 2:04 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02 2:13 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 2:21 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02 2:38 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 2:48 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02 1:30 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 1:59 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02 2:09 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 2:30 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 2:33 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02 2:45 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 2:51 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02 3:21 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-02 2:41 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 2:49 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 3:07 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 21:35 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 22:36 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02 22:56 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 23:01 ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 23:18 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-05 12:13 ` disable-cap-mlock Stephen Smalley
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