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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:39:37 +0000
From: Simon McVittie <smcv@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Linux user namespaces can bypass group-based
 restrictions

On 20/11/14 08:49, Vitor Ventura wrote:
> I was wondering if this might pose a problem to android's application file
> sandboxing. If an application can run a native lib that could exploits this
> it might have access to other aplication files.

Only if Android has groups that act as "anti-capabilities", i.e. members
of the group are less privileged than non-members. For instance, if I
remember correctly, the grsecurity patchset has (or used to have) the
ability to deny networking to members of a designated group while
allowing it for everyone else.

I don't know of any groups in Android that are anti-capabilities, and
nothing in
<http://osxr.org/android/source/system/core/include/private/android_filesystem_config.h>
looks like an obvious anti-capability. Do you know of any?

    S

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