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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, herbert.xu@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] MODSIGN: Kernel module signing
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:21:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070216202135.GA22121@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070215221304.GB6602@ucw.cz>
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:13:04PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Now, this is not a complete solution by any means: the core kernel is not
> > protected, and nor are /dev/mem or /dev/kmem, but it denies (or at least
> > controls) one relatively simple attack vector.
>
> Could we fix the /dev/*mem holes, first? They are already used by
> malicious modules (aka rootkits...). Or can selinux already provide
> /dev/*mem protection with no way for admin to turn it off?
There are some valid uses for peeking through /dev/mem. Things like
dmidecode for example. So you don't want to disable it completely
in a lot of cases, but have fine-grained access to specific parts
of the file. I'm not sure SELinux can do this. Maybe the MLS stuff
helps here (though I'm far from an expert on this, so I could be
talking out of my rear).
The restricted dev/mem patches we've had in Fedora for a while
do the right thing, but they're a bit crufty (in part due to
drivers/char/mem.c being a bit of a mess before we even start
patching it). I've had "clean these up for upstream" on my
todo for a while. I might get around to it one of these days.
Dave
--
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-16 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 19:09 David Howells
2007-02-14 19:09 ` [PATCH 2/6] MODSIGN: In-kernel crypto extensions David Howells
2007-02-14 19:09 ` [PATCH 3/6] MODSIGN: Add indications of module ELF types David Howells
2007-02-14 19:09 ` [PATCH 4/6] MODSIGN: Module ELF verifier David Howells
2007-02-14 19:10 ` [PATCH 5/6] MODSIGN: Module signature checker and key manager David Howells
2007-02-14 19:10 ` [PATCH 6/6] MODSIGN: Apply signature checking to modules on module load David Howells
2007-02-14 19:26 ` [PATCH 0/6] MODSIGN: Kernel module signing Linus Torvalds
2007-02-14 19:40 ` David Howells
2007-02-14 21:32 ` Michael Halcrow
2007-02-14 21:59 ` David Howells
2007-02-14 22:21 ` Michael Halcrow
2007-02-15 21:31 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-02-15 3:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 4:13 ` Dave Jones
2007-02-15 5:35 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-15 5:45 ` Dave Jones
2007-02-15 6:14 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-15 6:22 ` Dave Jones
2007-02-15 20:34 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-02-15 22:12 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-16 0:15 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-02-15 22:10 ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-15 20:55 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-02-15 21:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-02-15 22:12 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-02-15 14:35 ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-15 17:32 ` David Howells
2007-02-15 18:33 ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-15 20:01 ` David Lang
2007-02-15 21:01 ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-15 21:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-02-15 22:13 ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-16 20:21 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-02-16 20:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
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[not found] ` <7OTGJ-1G5-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-02-16 15:38 ` Bodo Eggert
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