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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: ls -l /proc/1/exe -> Permission denied
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:00:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53CC1FC2.5000806@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF2729CE69.3EF22126-ONC1257D1B.0069427B-C1257D1B.0069CA17@transmode.se>

Am 20.07.2014 21:15, schrieb Joakim Tjernlund:
> Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote on 2014/07/20 14:05:41:
>>
>> Am 20.07.2014 13:51, schrieb Andreas Schwab:
>>> Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> Do you have an example?
>>>
>>> proc symlinks are special because they actually resolve to the inode.
>>
>> Ah. If an attacker manages the kernel to follow the symlink he could
>> indirectly access that file.
>> Thanks for pointing this out!
> 
> That is a big if, I read this as you don't trust the kernels impl.
> of proc sym links so paper over this with denying all other to read 
> trivial
> data such as the exe sym link.

Feel free to propose a solution for that. :-)

Thanks,
//richard

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-20 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-17 11:18 ls -l /proc/1/exe -> Permission denied Joakim Tjernlund
2014-07-18 12:58 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-18 13:49   ` Joakim Tjernlund
     [not found]   ` <OF542E7A59.842197B0-ONC1257D19.004B7FF4-C1257D19.004BEC7C@LocalDomain>
2014-07-18 15:05     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2014-07-19 20:06       ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-19 20:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-07-20  9:02   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2014-07-20 10:55     ` Andreas Schwab
2014-07-20 11:06       ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-20 11:19         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2014-07-20 11:51         ` Andreas Schwab
2014-07-20 12:05           ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-20 12:05           ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-20 19:15             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2014-07-20 20:00               ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2014-07-20 22:05                 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2014-07-20 12:08           ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-21 17:48             ` Eric W. Biederman

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