Thread (51 messages) 51 messages, 8 authors, 2017-08-01

[PATCH v3 14/15] exec: Use sane stack rlimit under secureexec

From: jmorris@namei.org (James Morris)
Date: 2017-07-19 09:43:13
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, Kees Cook wrote:
For a secureexec, before memory layout selection has happened, reset the
stack rlimit to something sane to avoid the caller having control over
the resulting layouts.

$ ulimit -s
8192
$ ulimit -s unlimited
$ /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -s'
unlimited
$ sudo /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -s'
8192

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>

Reviewed-by: James Morris <redacted>


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