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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:34:00 +1000 (EST)
From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 01/15] Add PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS to prevent execve
 from granting privs

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:

> > What about dynamic transitions in SELinux ?
> >
> 
> What's a dynamic transition?

The security label can be changed without an exec:

See selinux_setprocattr(), for "current".


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>

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