Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alan Curry" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] new kernel syscall | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:31:47 -0500 (EST) |
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Pavel Machek writes the following: > >> I want to make a new kernel syscall. Obviously, before doing the (trivial) >> work, I want to check it is considered a good idea. > >Yes, please. This was one of major reasons elfcap patch became a bit >ugly. We'll need that few months before we can put capabilities into >mainstream use. > >> Comments please? A worthy 2.3 item?
A program with --x--x--x permissions can be read by anyone wielding LD_PRELOAD, because ldso can't get an accurate dumpable reading so it has to guess and it doesn't guess that case. So this is a worthy security fix regardless of capabilities. (Assuming the ldso maintainers are willing to make use of it)
Do we really need to wait for 2.4 to have permissions that work right?
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