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SubjectRe: Security issues with local filesystem caching
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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.

David
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