LWN.net Logo

Advertisement

Free copy of The Founder's Checklist and The Founders Pitch Deck Template from M L Bittle - New York; Advisor/Coach.

Advertise here

The trouble with CAP_SYS_RAWIO

The trouble with CAP_SYS_RAWIO

Posted Mar 19, 2013 1:57 UTC (Tue) by wahern (subscriber, #37304)
In reply to: The trouble with CAP_SYS_RAWIO by spender
Parent article: The trouble with CAP_SYS_RAWIO

"So the end result is opening up more attack surface to the most vulnerable part of the system, and soon on all distros you will have no choice but to be exposed to it."

Unfortunately, "less code, simpler code" is not one of the competing security paradigms in Linux Land.


(Log in to post comments)

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds