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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Peter Waechtler <pwaechtler@mac.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coredump - as root not only if euid switched
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:10:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040423101025.J21045@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10159129.1082704563424.JavaMail.pwaechtler@mac.com>; from pwaechtler@mac.com on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:16:03AM +0200

* Peter Waechtler (pwaechtler@mac.com) wrote:
> On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 09:53PM, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote:
> >This patch breaks various ptrace() checks.
> 
> Care to share your wisdom? No? Then please don't reply

-		current->mm->dumpable = 0;
+		current->mm->dump_as_root = 1;

Changes like that break ptrace authentication checks.  Look more closely
at what mm->dumpable is used for, you'll see checks like:

	if (!task->mm->dumpable && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
		goto out;

BTW, putting the patch inline makes it easier to comment directly on the
patch.

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-23 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-23  7:16 [PATCH] coredump - as root not only if euid switched Peter Waechtler
2004-04-23 17:10 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-04-23 19:05   ` Peter Wächtler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-23 15:35 Albert Cahalan
2004-04-23 19:14 ` Peter Wächtler
2004-04-23 17:22   ` Albert Cahalan
2004-04-23  7:46 Peter Waechtler
2004-04-23  7:14 Peter Waechtler
2004-04-22  9:40 Peter Waechtler
2004-04-22  9:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-22 19:43   ` Peter Wächtler
2004-04-22 19:53     ` Chris Wright
2004-04-22 20:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-04-22  8:51 Peter Waechtler
2004-04-22  8:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-21 19:20 Peter Wächtler
2004-04-22  1:18 ` Andrew Morton

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