On Thu 2007-11-29 23:58:44, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Alan Cox <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > The simple case is
> > open
> > write cathedral and bazaar in some order
> > close
> > <trap close -> process -> label eric_t>
> >
> > open (eric_t) - SELinux "no"
> >
> >
> > Anyone smart will then write it out of order and keep the file open, or
>
> That would assume Eric already has a program running on your system
> optimized to inject his works in a obfuscated way. And if he has a
> program running he can do nearly everything already. You already
> lost the game.
>
> The normal case Tvrtko et.al. are trying to handle would be more the
> work getting downloaded from somewhere or read from a usb stick using
> normal programs like web browsers or file managers who don't do any
> out of order writing tricks and other obfuscation.
Fortunately normal programs tend to be dynamically linked, so
LD_PRELOAD is fine to handle them. And we know we can't handle nasty
programs. Seems like LD_PRELOAD is the way to go.
Pavel
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