From: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Bill Abt <babt@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.30] Allow tasks to share credentials
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:12:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <111710000.1028322773@baldur.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208021016580.914-100000@home.transmeta.com>
--On Friday, August 02, 2002 10:22:54 AM -0700 Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
> But I _know_, for example, that this is just a horrid security hole the
> way it is now - the execve() path doesn't create a unique "cred"
> structure, so if you execve() a suid binary from a CLONE_CRED thread, the
> other threads get the suid'ness and can do whatever they want.
You are entirely correct. It was an oversight on my part. execve() should
always unshare the cred structure. I'll work up a fixed version.
Dave McCracken
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Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059
dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059
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2002-08-02 17:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 21:12 ` Dave McCracken [this message]
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2002-08-02 20:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 20:31 ` Dave McCracken
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