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Message-ID: <53A1971F.6010302@mittwald.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:39:49 +0000
From: Sven Kieske <S.Kieske@...twald.de>
To: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: docker VMM breakout
Am 18.06.2014 12:15, schrieb David Jorm:
> I tested libvirt via virsh and by default both CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH and
> CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE are available (and thus the PoC does run). However,
> this default is well documented as is the general insecurity of libvirt
> in regards to DAC, so I don't think a CVE ID is required for libvirt.
I fail to see why this should be true.
On most distributions libvirt spawned vms do not run as root but as user
qemu or similar.
according to the documentation at:
http://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html#securitycap
this should imply that libvirt drops these capabilities.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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