Re: [PATCH] Check files' signatures before doing suid/sgid [2/4]

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 19:25 +0200, Alexander Wuerstlein wrote:
> On 070621 19:21, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 18:02 +0200, Alexander Wuerstlein wrote:
> > > Modified task_struct to hold a 'signed flag' which is set on exec(), inherited
> > > on fork() and checked during exec before giving the new process suid/sgid
> > > privileges.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > do you also check the signature of glibc and every other shared library
> > that the app uses (or dlopens)? if not.. the entire exercise is rather
> > pointless...
> 
> We do check that, that is patch [3/4].
> 
> Of course we can only check mmap-ed files, if there is no file like with JIT
> compilers we are out of luck.

or if the process uses read() not mmap().

or .. or ...


so if perl is signed and it's the perl script that is setuid, and then
it includes other perl libs... that's read() not mmap().

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