From: renzo@cs.unibo.it (Renzo Davoli)
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Security house-cleaning
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:14:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040617151418.GD27872@cs.unibo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1087484840.21569.108.camel@sherbert>
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 04:07:20PM +0100, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> Thats only worrisome from a security perspective if qemu was designed to
> run SUID, which I doubt that it is... Of course it's a bug and needs
> fixing though.
One of the main pros of Qemu (among the others) it that it has been
designed NOT to run SUID.
The only piece of code that need root access is tuntap networking.
This problem can be circunvented by:
- using sudo for tuntap
- using user net (a.k.a slirp)
- using vde.
renzo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-17 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-17 4:38 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Security house-cleaning Tim
2004-06-17 15:07 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-06-17 15:14 ` Renzo Davoli [this message]
2004-06-17 15:24 ` Panagiotis Issaris
2004-06-17 15:27 ` Sebastien Bechet
2004-06-17 16:37 ` Tim
2004-06-17 17:03 ` Sander Nagtegaal
2004-06-17 17:16 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-06-17 19:59 ` Renzo Davoli
2004-06-17 16:05 ` Tim
2004-06-17 17:41 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-06-18 4:13 ` Tim
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