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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:40:13 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
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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, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:34 PM, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:
> 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".
Ah.
I see nothing wrong with that, for the same reason I see nothing wrong
with setuid (the system call) after PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS. The
privileges granted by writing to /proc/self/attr/current were already
available in the sense that you could have written to current whenever
you wanted to.
(FWIW, I think that selinux should have made that the only way to
change contexts, full stop. And I think that the setuid and setgid
bits were mistakes. Water under the bridge...)
--Andy
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