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Re: Security Hole in Axent ESM

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick)
Wed Sep 2 18:24:10 1998

Date: 	Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:50:57 -0400
Reply-To: Patrick <patrick@CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
From: Patrick <patrick@CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
X-To:         Taral <taral@mail.utexas.edu>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <000301bdd694$372c5cc0$3b291f0a@taral>

> Yes. Process capability restrictions. CAP_TIME or something like that could
> be easily implemented.

Looks like it already has.  (Except that capabilities still aren't in the
ext2 code of mainstream kernels, are they?)

Look in kernel 2.1.119 at include/linux/capability.h, lines 246-250 and
kernel/time.c, lines 155-160.

--Patrick

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