Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:24:40 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] AppArmor: Fix masking of capabilities in complain mode |
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 02:44:34AM +0100, John Johansen wrote: > AppArmor is masking the capabilities returned by capget against the > capabilities mask in the profile. This is wrong, in complain mode the > profile has effectively all capabilities, as the profile restrictions are > not being enforced, merely tested against to determine if an access is > known by the profile. > > This can result in the wrong behavior of security conscience applications > like sshd which examine their capability set, and change their behavior > accordingly. In this case because of the masked capability set being > returned sshd fails due to DAC checks, even when the profile is in complain > mode. > > Kernels affected: 2.6.36 - 3.0. > > Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> > ---
You say that multiple kernels are affected, then why not also include stable@kernel.org here as well?
confused,
greg k-h
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