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    SubjectRe: patch to make Linux capabilities into something useful (v 0.3.1)
    Hi!

    > > If attacker already has priviledge foo, he can just go use it. He does
    > > not have to exec() poor program not expecting to get priviledge foo,
    > > then abusing it.
    >
    > It is not about attackers. It is about normal usage. If you spawn a program,
    > it might behave wrong since it does not know that it is priveledged. For
    > example a network daemon might start a child process which interacts with
    > the user, and forgets to drop priveldges for it.

    Ok, something like that is possible, at least it is not a security
    problem.

    > > Sanitized here means "all regular capabilities set, all others
    > > cleared".
    >
    > Yes, however I thought this was exactly what the patch is not doing?

    Yep, it needs to be fixed ;-).
    Pavel
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