Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:15:53 +0000 | From | Serge Hallyn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] capabilities: Ambient capability set V1 |
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Quoting Christoph Lameter (cl@linux.com): > On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > > I do not see a problem with dropping privilege since the ambient set > > > is supposed to be preserved across a drop of priviledge. > > > > Because you're tricking the program into thinking it has dropped > > the privilege, when in fact it has not. > > So the cap was dropped from the cap perm set but it is still active > in the ambient set?
Right, and the legacy program doesn't know to check the new set.
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