Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <> | Subject | Re: [AppArmor 01/41] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_create LSM hook | Date | Fri, 25 May 2007 14:13:25 -0400 |
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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@cmu.edu> writes:
> [snip]
> Well, my point was exactly that App Armor doesn't (as far as I know) do > anything to enforce the argv[0] convention, nor would it in general > prevent a confined program from making a symlink or hard link. Even > disregarding that, it seems very fragile in general to make an suid > program (there would be no point in confining the execution of a > non-suid program) perform essentially access control based on argv[0].
Note that by "confining the execution of a non-suid program", I mean defining an App Armor profile that prevents the execution of a particular non-suid program, unless of course the program file itself contains secret information, which is irrelevant to this discussion.
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