Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag

[Paolo Bonzini]

Jack Lloyd wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:13:20PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > A process can send a signal via kill.  IOW, a malicious process can 
> > *control when the process would be interrupted* in order to get it into 
> > the signal handler with DF=1.
>
> If the malicious process can send a signal to another process, it
> could also ptrace() it. Which is more useful, if you wanted to be
> malicious?

1) capabilities(7)

2) sometimes setuid programs send signals (e.g. SIGHUP or SIGUSR1)...

Paolo
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