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| author | Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> | 2008-07-04 09:59:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-04 10:40:08 -0700 |
| commit | 1209726ce942047c9fefe7cd427dc36f8e9ded53 (patch) | |
| tree | 298e78052d6bdd92c78b22c86604f8c8364bc8d9 /Documentation/sysctl | |
| parent | 086f7316f0d400806d76323beefae996bb3849b1 (diff) | |
security: filesystem capabilities: fix CAP_SETPCAP handling
The filesystem capability support meaning for CAP_SETPCAP is less powerful
than the non-filesystem capability support. As such, when filesystem
capabilities are configured, we should not permit CAP_SETPCAP to 'enhance'
the current process through strace manipulation of a child process.
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
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