On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Serge E. Hallyn [off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 02:13:00PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
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Andrew Morgan was against that. What if we changed
pE' = pP' & (fE | pA)
to
if (pA)
pE' = pP' & fE
else
pE' = pP'
Same problem as before. The ambient bits will not be set in pE'.
And what if I weren't scatterbrained and we did
if (pA)
pE' = pP'
else
pE' = pP' & fE
All pP' bits would be set in pE'.
That seems reasonable to me, except for my paranoia:
What if there's a program with CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE in fP and fE set to
the empty set (i.e. the magic effective bit cleared), and the program
relies on that. A malicious user has CAP_NET_BIND and sets pA =
CAP_NET_BIND. Boom!
If we changed that to if (pA') and zeroed pA if fP is non-empty then
this problem goes away.
--Andy
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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC