Quoting Christoph Lameter (c...@linux.com): > On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > > I do not see a problem with dropping privilege since the ambient set > > > is supposed to be preserved across a drop of priviledge. > > > > Because you're tricking the program into thinking it has dropped > > the privilege, when in fact it has not. > > So the cap was dropped from the cap perm set but it is still active > in the ambient set?
Right, and the legacy program doesn't know to check the new set. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
