Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] proc: maps protection | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:22:11 -0800 |
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> [Adding Cc:lkml]
> How about using a reduced check, as is done for fd and environ? This > would allow root-running system monitors to still do their job. > Effectively, this changes the test from "is ptracing" to just "can > ptrace". > > If this still isn't considered safe, I'll add the maps_protect file...
btw I consider it an information leak that any user can see which files/libraries any other user and root has mmap'd. (and with glibc's stdio mmap feature that goes even beyond direct mmap to fopen()'d).
If root or some other user wants to watch hillary-vs-obama-in-the-mud.avi, no other user has ANY business even seeing that. So at minimum it's a privacy issue showing the filenames... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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