No protection from SELinux/-CAP_SYS_RAWIO/grsecurity/whatever
Posted Dec 1, 2003 21:48 UTC (Mon) by
ncm (subscriber, #165)
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No protection from SELinux/-CAP_SYS_RAWIO/grsecurity/whatever by walters
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A Debian kernel security update
I don't think a chroot jail would have helped, either.
(Not that regular user accounts are commonly jailed.)
I wonder if this intrusion was done specifically to
vent frustration that this bug/fix was not taken as
sufficient to justify an immediate 2.4 release on its
own merits, or that Debian didn't pick it up ahead of
the 2.4.23 release. If so, it might have been a Debian
developer acting, and not somebody who had hijacked
his account. That would be a Good Thing, because
otherwise some Debian developer's personal account
somewhere is still compromised.
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