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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:27:47 -0400
From: christos@...las.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2016-7545 -- SELinux sandbox escape

On Sep 29, 12:32pm, jwilk@...lk.net (Jakub Wilk) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [oss-security] CVE-2016-7545 -- SELinux sandbox escape

| * Christos Zoulas <christos@...las.com>, 2016-09-26, 13:53:
| >On the BSDs TIOCSTI has been limited to the superuser since the 4.4BSD Lite 2 
| >release in 1995 (IIRC).
| 
| Hmm. I've just tried OpenBSD 5.7 and FreeBSD 10.3, and TIOCSTI works fine for 
| non-root users.

I am wrong, sorry. It still works on BSD for the owner of the tty controlling
process group. I guess it is time to fix it everywhere.

christos

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