Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 4 authors, 2017-05-03

[PATCH v5 0/2] security: tty: make TIOCSTI ioctl require CAP_SYS_ADMIN

From: Alan Cox <hidden>
Date: 2017-04-25 13:48:30
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There could be a few user programs that would be effected by this
change.
See: <https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=ioctl%5C%28.*TIOCSTI>
notable programs are: agetty, csh, xemacs and tcsh

However, I still believe that this change is worth it given that the
Kconfig defaults to n. This will be a feature that is turned on for the
same reason that people activate it when using grsecurity. Users of this
opt-in feature will realize that they are choosing security over some OS
features 
Only in this case they are not.

If I am at the point I have the ability to send you TIOCSTI you already
lost because I can just open /dev/tty to get access to my controlling tty
and use write().

Alan
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