From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] c/r: prctl: Add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:50:20 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120319225020.GL19594@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120319154649.0687f545.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 03:46:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Please send a patch with the updated changelog and improved comment?
Sure I'll resend.
>
> > >
> > > Actually I liked multi-shot version more but Matt arguments convinced
> > > me that one-short fashion is more "secure" in terms of overall kernel
> > > state and potential transitions/changes of this /proc/pid/exe symlink.
> > >
> > > At least with one-shot version the admin may be sure that the symlink
> > > is never changed more than once, ever.
> > >
> >
> > And changing it once does not harm security?
> > I'm sure that rootkit writers will like this feature...
>
> Well, let's discuss this more completely. In what ways could an
> attacker use this? How serious is the problem? What actions can be
> taken to lessen it? etcetera.
It can use it iif CAP_SYS_RESOURCE is granted.
Otherwise you'll get -eaccess.
Cyrill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-19 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-16 20:55 [patch 0/2] [PATCH 0/2] prctl extension in a sake of c/r Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-16 20:55 ` [patch 1/2] c/r: prctl: Add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-19 22:15 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-19 22:39 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-19 22:41 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-03-19 22:46 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-19 22:50 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2012-03-19 22:59 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-19 23:12 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-19 23:02 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-03-19 23:17 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-19 23:23 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-03-20 6:55 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-22 23:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-23 6:41 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-23 6:47 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-23 17:06 ` Matt Helsley
2012-03-19 22:47 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-16 20:55 ` [patch 2/2] c/r: prctl: Add ability to get clear_tid_address Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-19 16:51 ` Kees Cook
2012-03-19 16:55 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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