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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems  using capabilities
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:34:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151105173438.GA3378@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151105171701.GB9307@ikki.ethgen.ch>

On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 06:17:01PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Hi Serge,
> 
> Am Do den  5. Nov 2015 um 17:15 schrieb Serge E. Hallyn:
> > I think if you follow your idea to its logical conclusions, you end
> > up wanting set SECURE_ALL_BITS | SECURE_ALL_LOCKS, which will include
> > SECURE_NO_CAP_AMBIENT_RAISE, disabling ambient capabilities.
> 
> That I did miss out and seems to be the solution for the problem. So
> adding cap_secure_all_bits,cap_secure_all_locks=ep to every binary that
> gets other caps should solve it?

No that doesn't work, you have to use prctl to set those bits.  If you
can get your system to be fully rootless, you can have init or initramfs
do this for you.  It'll mean that root and setuid-root binaries have no
automatic privileges beside owning host (proc/sys) files.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-05 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-02 18:06 Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-02 18:38 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-11-02 18:50   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-02 19:16     ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-02 19:45       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-05 10:19         ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-05 16:15           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-11-05 17:17             ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-05 17:34               ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2015-11-05 17:48                 ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-05 19:01                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-05 22:08                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-11-06 13:58                       ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-06 15:53                         ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-11-06 17:15                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-06 17:51                           ` Casey Schaufler
2015-11-06 18:05                             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-11-06 17:56                           ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-06 18:18                             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-11-07 11:02                               ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-08 17:05                                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-11-09 16:28                                 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-11-09 17:23                                   ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-09 19:02                                     ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-11-09 21:29                                       ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-10  0:06                                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-10 11:55                                           ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-10 12:40                                             ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-11-10 13:19                                               ` [KERNEL] [PATCH] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-10 13:35                                                 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-11-10 17:58                                                   ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-10 20:39                                                     ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-11-10 13:41                                                 ` Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-11  2:04                                                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-11-11 10:14                                                   ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-11 10:54                                                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-11-11 11:13                                                       ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-10 15:25                                               ` [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] " Christoph Lameter
2015-11-05 16:19           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-05 17:22             ` [KERNEL] " Klaus Ethgen
2015-11-02 18:52   ` Linus Torvalds

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