From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] pmap: reduced permissions
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:10:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137996654.2977.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601222219.k0MMJ3Qg209555@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 17:19 -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> This patch changes all 3 remaining maps files to be readable
> only for the file owner. There have been privacy concerns.
>
> Fedora Core 4 has been shipping with such permissions on
> the /proc/*/maps file already. General system monitoring
> tools seldom use these files.
changing /maps to 0400 breaks glibc; there are cases where this would
lead to /proc/self/maps to be not readable (setuid like apps) so this
needs a more elaborate fix.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-23 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-22 22:19 Albert D. Cahalan
2006-01-23 6:10 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-01-23 9:28 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-01-23 9:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-23 10:20 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-01-25 23:47 ` Nix
2006-01-26 1:45 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-01-26 7:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-26 7:54 ` Nix
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