Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: Security issues with local filesystem caching | Date | Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:21:16 +0100 |
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Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
> SELinux support addresses all of these issues for B1 level security quite > well with mandatory access controls at the fs layers. In fact, it works so > well, when enabled you cannot even run apache on top of an FS unless > configured properly.
How? The problem I've got is that the caching code would be creating and accessing files and directories with the wrong security context - that of the calling process - and not a context suitable for sharing things in the cache whilst protecting them from userspace as best we can.
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