Quoting Eric W. Biederman ([email protected]):
> Dave Hansen <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 21:45 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> I think for filesystems like /proc and /sys that there will normally
> >> be problems. However many of those problems can be rationalized away
> >> as a reasonable optimization, or are not immediately apparent.
> >
> > Could you talk about some of these problems?
>
> Already mentioned but. rw permissions on sensitive files are for
> uid == 0. No capability checks are performed.
As Herbert (IIRC) pointed out that could/should be fixed.
-serge
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