SELinuxDenyPtrace and security by default
SELinuxDenyPtrace and security by default
Posted Apr 12, 2012 14:03 UTC (Thu) by mstone (subscriber, #58824)In reply to: SELinuxDenyPtrace and security by default by slashdot
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As the author of OLPC's circa-2007 "rainbow" uid-based sandboxing system (see http://sandboxing.org), uid-based sandboxing works reasonably well at the level of the kernel but interacts poorly with current free software desktops and is only questionably useful against adaptive adversaries given the rate at which new local privilege escalation attacks are discovered.