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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [3/3] Support piping into commands in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 14:01 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 10:29 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > But still. Is this code secure?
> >
> > Any auditing from third parties appreciated.
> >
> > I don't know of any obvious flaws (at least assuming the pipe handler
> > isn't insecure code), but then I'm biased.
>
> one angle is... is the userspace handler trusted code by root? Or is it
> allowed to be per user/user defined binary? In the later case there are
> all kinds of DoS scenarios possible; in the former it's root doing that
> to himself ;)

so one angle that needs to be resolved is the selinux interaction, where
root!=root to some degree. If "any root" can control the sysctl, then
this could lead to information leaks, or worse, to a "limited root" to
"full root" escalation...

>
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