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Spengler: False Boundaries and Arbitrary Code Execution

Spengler: False Boundaries and Arbitrary Code Execution

Posted Jan 5, 2011 18:03 UTC (Wed) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588)
In reply to: Spengler: False Boundaries and Arbitrary Code Execution by martinfick
Parent article: Spengler: False Boundaries and Arbitrary Code Execution

It seems like Information Assurance in the form of MAC (hello SELinux) is a cleaner option than capabilities where possible. I know that Fedora / RHEL taught libvirtd about SELinux and called it sVirt[1]. This seems like the best possible way forward over simple capabilities.

[1] http://selinuxproject.org/page/SVirt

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