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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:47:46 +0100
From: Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matt Brown <matt@...tt.com>
Cc: serge@...lyn.com, jmorris@...ei.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
jslaby@...e.com, corbet@....net, keescook@...omium.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jannh@...gle.com,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] security: tty: make TIOCSTI ioctl require
CAP_SYS_ADMIN
> 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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