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Message-ID: <20110918170512.GA2351@albatros> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:05:12 +0400 From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Kees Cook <kees@...ntu.com>, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm: restrict access to /proc/slabinfo Hi Andrew, On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:27 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 08:41:34PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: > > Historically /proc/slabinfo has 0444 permissions and is accessible to > > the world. slabinfo contains rather private information related both to > > the kernel and userspace tasks. Depending on the situation, it might > > reveal either private information per se or information useful to make > > another targeted attack. Some examples of what can be learned by > > reading/watching for /proc/slabinfo entries: > > ... > > World readable slabinfo simplifies kernel developers' job of debugging > > kernel bugs (e.g. memleaks), but I believe it does more harm than > > benefits. For most users 0444 slabinfo is an unreasonable attack vector. > > > > Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com> > > Haven't had any mass complaints about the 0400 in Ubuntu (sorry Dave!), so > I'm obviously for it. > > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@...ntu.com> Looks like the members of the previous slabinfo discussion don't object against the patch now and it got two other Reviewed-by responses. Can you merge it as-is or should I probably convince someone else? Thanks, -- Vasiliy Kulikov http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments
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