Re: request for comment: generic kernel interface for malware vendors

[Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 20:14 +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Am Montag, 21. Juli 2008 schrieb Eric Paris:
> > First I'd like to thank Sophos who stepped up and originally wrote a lot
> > of this code.  They might not recognize it since I've gotten my hands on
> > it, but they were nice enough to get the ball rolling by giving me some
> > GPL code which addressed near every request people on the malware list
> > had.
> 
> I have not looked at the code, but if I remember correctly there was another 
> GPLed code for file access scanning. It was called dazuko. Google gave me  
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazuko
> 
> Maybe you can get some ideas from there as well?

Maybe ideas, but it works by disabling mandatory access controls.  No
SELinux, no AppArmor, no SMACK, no TOMOYO, and therefore a non-starter.

I certainly don't think its a good idea to take a box that I am using to
try to increase organization wide security and have to lower its
individual security properties.

-Eric