[31278] in bugtraq
Re: Buffer overflow prevention
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glynn Clements)
Tue Aug 19 22:42:38 2003
From: Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 02:55:28 +0100
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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Theo de Raadt wrote:
> One of these days someone is going to use the magic of a system call
> interposition mechanism such systrace; and for their application
> accidentally create an operating system behaviour that is un-POSIX,
> and some application is going to misbehave as a result of that change
> and inadvertantly this will result in the CREATION of a hole.
For a concrete example regarding POSIX 1e capabilities (which
are essentially a "system call interposition mechanism"):
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/k-064.shtml
Summary: If a root process doesn't have CAP_SETUID, attempts to give
up root privilege fail, resulting in the process continuing to run as
root.
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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
