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SubjectRe: [PATCH] exec: Weaken dumpability for secureexec
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On 01/03/2018 09:21 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 4:11 AM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 01:04:44 -0600
>> Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>>
>>>> This weakens dumpability back to checking only for uid/gid changes in
>>>> current (which is useless), but userspace depends on dumpability not
>>>> being tied to secureexec.
>>>>
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1528633
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Tom Horsley <horsley1953@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Seems right, any chance we could get a tested-by: Tom? (Did we already
>>> get that?)
>>
>> I didn't test it myself, but all I'd do is run the test program
>> I've attached to the bugzilla above which is trivial compared
>> to be learning how to patch and build kernels. So it would be
>> much simpler for someone with the kernel already built to
>> extract the tarball and type make :-).
>
> This is what I did to verify it. Thank you very much for the test case!
>
> -Kees
>

I ran the test case again and can confirm that it works. I didn't
get a chance to try the other test case I reported (coredumping
systemd units) but I pointed the reporter to the patch.

Thanks,
Laura

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