Re: RFC: disablenetwork facility. (v4)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Dec 27 2009 - 13:06:47 EST



> >I thought that disabling network was a completely
> >unprivileged operation? And subsequently executing a setuid-root
> >application won't reset the flag.
>
> Correct and correct for the current patches.

Then you are introducing a security problem. User can now mess with
setuid0 binary.

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