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From: Serge Aleynikov <serge@hq.idt.net>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: non-critical security bug fix
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:11:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <452EAF8D.9040405@hq.idt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061012202926.GA5690@sergelap.austin.ibm.com>

Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Are you able to modify the source of the application you bought?  If so,
> you can trivially fix it to do what you need by doing a cap_set_proc
> after the suid as I described before, i.e.
> 
> 	ret = setuid();
> 	caps = cap_from_text("cap_net_raw=e");
> 	ret = cap_set_proc(caps);
> 
> Is that an option?

Unfortunately that product doesn't come with sources.  :-(

-- 
Serge Aleynikov
Routing R&D, IDT Telecom
Tel: +1 (973) 438-3436
Fax: +1 (973) 438-1464

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-12 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-11 18:58 non-critical security bug fix Serge Aleynikov
2006-10-12 19:06 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-10-12 19:25   ` Serge Aleynikov
2006-10-12 20:29     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-10-12 21:11       ` Serge Aleynikov [this message]

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