Re: non-critical security bug fix

[Serge Aleynikov]

Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Are you able to modify the source of the application you bought?  If so,
> you can trivially fix it to do what you need by doing a cap_set_proc
> after the suid as I described before, i.e.
>
> 	ret = setuid();
> 	caps = cap_from_text("cap_net_raw=e");
> 	ret = cap_set_proc(caps);
>
> Is that an option?

Unfortunately that product doesn't come with sources.  :-(

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Serge Aleynikov
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