Subject: Re: Limiting systrace to root user?
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 03/29/2005 10:35:19
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 05:03:04PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> >Has anyone made the necessary changes to do this, or thought about this
> >issue harder?
>
> No, but I guess systracing /bin/systrace is too easy?
I am pretty sure that doesn't work. /bin/systrace isn't setuid; any
user can invoke the systrace machinery in the kernel even if you
remove /bin/systrace entirely.
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Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
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