Re: Capabilities

[Pavel Machek]

HI!

> This configuration would prevent any hack entry into the server (via bugs/
> stack overflow, etc) from being able to do anything to the data (no write
> down). Without the exec, no shell process could be generated. The
> most that

Sorry, disabling exec is security by obscurity (it will deter 95%
attacks, still!). You can do exec without actually invoking exec
system call -- you close some fds, mmap executable somewhere into your
address space, unmap old files ... and you've done exec() without
actually doing exec. (Mj's freezer does something pretty similar --
for example he could freeze bash then unfreeze it into your web
server!)
								Pavel
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