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Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using capabilities

From Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using capabilities
Date 2015-11-02 20:00 +0100
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Richard Weinberger
<richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> With the patch above, any process that is spawned by such a program will
>> inherit the raised capabilities if it has no own filecapabilities set.

Do you actually have a real example of this?

The ambient capabilities stay empty unless you explicitly raise them.
So your old workflow shouldn't actually have any change in it at all.

And if your old workflow gave a capability to something you don't
trust, and that then decides to now uses the ambient capabilities,
what does that change? It had the capability already.

So please explain what it is you actually object to. With actual real issues.

If behavior actually changed of existing setups, then that would be a
bug, and yes, it should be fixed.  The new ambient capabilities should
only matter when you choose to use them.

              Linus
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Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-02 19:10 +0100
  Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using capabilities Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 19:40 +0100
    Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using capabilities Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-02 20:00 +0100
    Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using capabilities Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-11-02 20:00 +0100
      Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using  capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-02 20:20 +0100
        Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using capabilities Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-02 20:50 +0100
          Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems  using capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-05 11:30 +0100
            Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems  using capabilities "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-05 17:20 +0100
              Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks  security in systems  using capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-05 18:20 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks  security in systems  using capabilities "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-05 18:40 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3  breaks  security in systems  using capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-05 18:50 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3  breaks security in systems using capabilities Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-05 20:10 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3  breaks security in systems using capabilities "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-05 23:10 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re:  Kernel 4.3  breaks security in systems using capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-06 15:00 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re:  Kernel 4.3  breaks security in systems using capabilities Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-11-06 17:00 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re:  Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using capabilities Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-06 18:20 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re:  Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using capabilities Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> - 2015-11-06 19:00 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re:  Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using capabilities "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-06 19:10 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re:  [KERNEL] Re:  Kernel 4.3  breaks security in systems using capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-06 19:00 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re:  [KERNEL] Re:  Kernel 4.3  breaks security in systems using capabilities "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-06 19:20 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re:  [KERNEL] Re:  [KERNEL] Re:  Kernel 4.3  breaks security in systems using  capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-07 12:10 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re:  [KERNEL] Re:  [KERNEL] Re:  Kernel 4.3  breaks security in systems using  capabilities "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-08 18:10 +0100
                Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using capabilities Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 17:40 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using  capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-09 18:30 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using  capabilities Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 20:10 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems  using  capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-09 22:30 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems  using capabilities Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-10 01:10 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks  security in systems  using capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-10 13:00 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks  security in systems  using capabilities Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-11-10 13:50 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] [PATCH] Kernel 4.3 breaks  security in systems  using  capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-10 14:20 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] [PATCH] Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems using  capabilities Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 14:40 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] [PATCH] Kernel 4.3 breaks security in  systems using  capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-10 19:10 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] [PATCH] Kernel 4.3 breaks security in  systems using capabilities Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 21:50 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] [PATCH] Kernel 4.3 breaks  security in  systems  using  capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-10 14:50 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] [PATCH] Kernel 4.3 breaks  security in systems  using  capabilities Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-11-11 03:10 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] [PATCH] Kernel 4.3 breaks  security in  systems  using  capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-11 11:20 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] [PATCH] Kernel 4.3 breaks  security in  systems  using  capabilities Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-11-11 12:00 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] [PATCH] Kernel 4.3 breaks   security in  systems  using  capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-11 12:20 +0100
                Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security  in systems  using capabilities Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-11-10 16:30 +0100
            Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks security in systems  using capabilities Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-05 17:30 +0100
              Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: [KERNEL] Re: Kernel 4.3 breaks  security in systems  using capabilities Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+lkml@ethgen.de> - 2015-11-05 18:30 +0100

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