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SubjectRe: [PATCH v17 01/15] Add PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS to prevent execve from granting privs
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Markus Gutschke <markus@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 13:54, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> wrote:
>> (FWIW, I think that CLONE_NEWPID interacts badly with unix socket
>> credentials and should be fixed as a prerequisite for making it easier
>> to access.)
>
> sendmsg() is a big hair ball. And yes, I have all sorts of things on
> my wish list that touch sendmsg(). I don't think, I'll get them
> fullfilled anytime soon, though:
>
>  - sendmsg() does lots of different things: sending on unconnected
> sockets, sending file descriptors, sending unix decriptors, and
> plain-old sending data. These operations have very different security
> properties and implications. It would be awesome if BPF filters could
> filter these different types of operations selectively.
>
>  - ancillary data is a cool concept in general. We should use it more.
> If I could send a memory mapping from one process to another, that
> would solve so many problems. But I know, I am dreaming; I don't
> expect to see this feature any time soon.
>

Agreed, but I'm talking about something totally different: if I can
use CLONE_NEWPID, then I can send an unexpected pid with SCM_CREDS.
The SCM_CREDS receive code should remap pids.

--Andy
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