From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Geoffrey McRae <geoff@rabidhost.com>
Cc: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New Security Features, Please Comment
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:08:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081203230820.4473a162@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228344292.6993.27.camel@lappy.spacevs.com>
> The children are pre-forked, so the overhead is in the setup... then
> when the app recieves a request, it sets the child's uid to the uid of
> the website, and then passes the request to the child, which, now, the
> child is running as the website owner.
But the child process may already have been trojanned by a previous user
so it gains you nothing.
> It is more secure then just doing nothing.
I'm not convinced. Not remotely.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-03 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-02 23:28 Geoffrey McRae
2008-12-03 0:24 ` Geoffrey McRae
2008-12-03 0:53 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-03 1:44 ` Geoffrey McRae
2008-12-03 2:11 ` David Newall
2008-12-03 2:55 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-12-03 4:02 ` Geoffrey McRae
2008-12-03 4:35 ` Peter Teoh
2008-12-03 5:02 ` Geoffrey McRae
2008-12-03 6:54 ` David Newall
2008-12-03 10:29 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-03 12:42 ` Nick Andrew
2008-12-03 12:46 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-03 22:44 ` Geoffrey McRae
2008-12-03 23:08 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-12-03 23:27 ` Peter Teoh
2008-12-03 23:40 ` Geoffrey McRae
2008-12-04 21:56 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-12-04 22:30 ` Geoffrey McRae
2008-12-05 3:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-12-05 3:44 ` Nick Andrew
2008-12-05 3:50 ` Geoffrey McRae
2008-12-05 4:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-12-03 23:39 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2008-12-04 0:00 ` Geoffrey McRae
2008-12-04 0:22 ` Peter Teoh
2008-12-04 0:08 ` Alan Cox
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