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From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@redhat.com>
Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: have we been sucked by suckit?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873cc0yk5w.fsf@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312040047210.27326-100000@lacrosse.corp.redhat.com> (Matthew Galgoci's message of "Thu, 4 Dec 2003 00:51:29 -0500 (EST)")

Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@redhat.com> writes:

>> The machine never runs X11, so knocking CAP_SYS_RAWIO out of the
>> capability bounding set might be a good move.
>
> I'd sooner rip out /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, and all the vm86 support.

I don't think that does anything about iopl(); but clearing
CAP_SYS_RAWIO does.

Deleting /dev/mem and /dev/kmem is a good idea, but an attacker with
root can just mknod them right back unless CAP_SYS_MKNOD is cleared.

> SELinux will let us restict things nicely. I don't think the
> draconian approach above will help terribly.
>
> I'm angling for some selinux training and I hope to make selinux on sources
> a reality in the next 6 to 8 months.

cool.

zw

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-04 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-03 23:21 Joe Buck
2003-12-04  0:09 ` law
2003-12-04  0:18   ` Joe Buck
2003-12-04  1:08     ` Christopher Faylor
2003-12-04  4:25       ` law
2003-12-04  5:44         ` Matthew Galgoci
2003-12-04  6:19           ` Christopher Faylor
2003-12-04  1:31 ` Matthew Galgoci
2003-12-04  1:49   ` Christopher Faylor
2003-12-04  2:17     ` Matthew Galgoci
2003-12-04  2:36       ` Matthew Galgoci
2003-12-04  2:50     ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-04  2:55       ` Phil Edwards
2003-12-04  5:51       ` Matthew Galgoci
2003-12-04 10:03         ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2003-12-04 11:12           ` Matthew Galgoci
     [not found] <200312040328.hB43S2ON017317@speedy.slc.redhat.com>
2003-12-04  5:39 ` Matthew Galgoci
2003-12-04  6:32   ` Christopher Faylor

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