From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Kristian Sørensen" <ks@cs.aau.dk>
Cc: umbrella-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Umbrella-devel] Re: Getting full path from dentry in LSM hooks
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 17:56:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094317006.10555.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4138CE6F.10501@cs.aau.dk>
On Gwe, 2004-09-03 at 21:05, Kristian Sørensen wrote:
> If an email client receives an malformed email (like the countless
> attacks on outlook), a simple restriction could be for the process
> handeling the mail would be "$HOME/.addressbook", furthermore, you could
> specify that attachments executed _from_ the emailprogram would not have
> access to the network. Thus the virus cannot find mail addresses to send
> itself to - and it cannot even get network access. Simple and effective.
ln /tmp/bwhahaha $HOME/.addressbook
more /tmp/bwhahaha
As the nice man from the NSA said ;) label content not paths. Use xattrs
to say "this is an addressbook" and then the path games go away.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-04 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-03 12:12 Kristian Sørensen
2004-09-03 12:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-03 12:38 ` [Umbrella-devel] " Kristian Sørensen
2004-09-03 13:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-03 13:20 ` Kristian Sørensen
2004-09-03 14:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-03 19:54 ` Kristian Sørensen
2004-09-04 11:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04 18:52 ` Kristian Sørensen
2004-09-03 15:38 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-09-03 12:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-03 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-03 20:05 ` [Umbrella-devel] " Kristian Sørensen
2004-09-03 20:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-04 9:06 ` Kristian Sørensen
2004-09-04 10:50 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2004-09-07 14:19 ` Kristian Sørensen
2004-09-04 2:41 ` Horst von Brand
2004-09-04 19:01 ` Kristian Sørensen
2004-09-04 19:06 ` Kristian Sørensen
2004-09-04 16:56 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-04 18:47 ` Kristian Sørensen
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