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SubjectRe: [AppArmor 39/41] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:27:08AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > It's nice to check for consistency though, so we're adding that. Profile
> > loading is a trusted operation, at least so far, and so security wise we
> > don't actually have to care --- if loading an invalid profile can bring down
> > the system, then that's no worse than an arbitrary module that crashes the
> > machine. Not sure if there will ever be user loadable profiles; at least at
> > that point we had to care.
>
> A security system that allows to crash the kernel is a little weird
> though. It would be better to check. Not that a recursion check
> is particularly expensive.
>
Indeed. It will be fixed in the next rev.

thanks
john

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