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Message-ID: <20170425144746.0d8721a3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:47:46 +0100 From: Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Matt Brown <matt@...tt.com> Cc: serge@...lyn.com, jmorris@...ei.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, jslaby@...e.com, corbet@....net, keescook@...omium.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jannh@...gle.com, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] security: tty: make TIOCSTI ioctl require CAP_SYS_ADMIN > There could be a few user programs that would be effected by this > change. > See: <https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=ioctl%5C%28.*TIOCSTI> > notable programs are: agetty, csh, xemacs and tcsh > > However, I still believe that this change is worth it given that the > Kconfig defaults to n. This will be a feature that is turned on for the > same reason that people activate it when using grsecurity. Users of this > opt-in feature will realize that they are choosing security over some OS > features Only in this case they are not. If I am at the point I have the ability to send you TIOCSTI you already lost because I can just open /dev/tty to get access to my controlling tty and use write(). Alan
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