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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov,
	sds@tycho.nsa.gov, jmorris@namei.org, spender@grsecurity.net,
	dwalsh@redhat.com, cl@linux-foundation.org, arjan@infradead.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: mmap_min_addr and your local LSM (ok, just SELinux)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:31:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907211331.50196.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090721041311.GE11051@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 
> Why do we not add a personality flag for this? With that, at least you
> could require a harmless setuid wrapper for wine that just set the
> personality bits and dropped root.

I thought the MMAP_PAGE_ZERO personality bit was exactly what Brad
was using in his demonstration. We don't need to define a new bit,
just use the one that's there ;-).

Then again, setting personality flags does not require root permissions
normally, so it's not an extremely strong protection, unless you also
start requiring CAP_SYS_RAWIO for setting MMAP_PAGE_ZERO.

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-21 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-20 23:23 mmap_min_addr and your local LSM (ok, just SELinux) Eric Paris
2009-07-21  0:14 ` Christopher Pardy
2009-07-21 13:41   ` Daniel J Walsh
2009-07-21  3:45 ` James Morris
2009-07-21 14:44   ` James Carter
2009-07-22 10:06     ` James Morris
2009-07-28  0:19       ` Alan Cox
2009-07-28  3:28         ` Kyle Moffett
2009-07-28  9:21         ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-28 10:00           ` Alan Cox
2009-07-28 11:21             ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-28 13:35               ` Brad Spengler
2009-07-28 14:48                 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-28 15:56           ` Kees Cook
2009-07-28 16:23             ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-21  3:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-07-21 11:51   ` Brad Spengler
2009-07-21  4:13 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-07-21 11:31   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-07-30  9:06 ` Pavel Machek

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