Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Oct 2008 14:51:49 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] proc: add "personality" to process status file |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:14:24 -0700 Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> wrote:
> There is no sane way to query the personality flags of arbitrary > process from userspace. This adds the flags to the /proc/$pid/status > file. For example, to detect READ_IMPLIES_EXEC: >
.. I'm sure local exploit writers will love this to find out which processes to attack. Realistically, this probably shouldn't be in a world-readable file.
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