Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/11] security: AppArmor - Overview

[Seth Arnold]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:52:40PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> a scary angle is that a compromised "confined" process can still
> reconfigure all your networking to the point that it can forward and NAT

If you have decided to allow the process to use CAP_NET_ADMIN by adding
the text "capability net_admin," to the profile in question, I fail to
see how this is "scary" -- in fact, this is exactly what you have chosen
to allow this process to do.

One of our developers has a profile set of 827 profiles that we use for
testing system functionality and our tools; twenty of those profiles have
"capability net_admin" granted. The other 807 profiles do not have the
ability to reconfigure the network at will.

I hope this clears up your concern. Thanks Arjan

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