On 09/09/2015 05:07 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Tvrtko Ursulin
<tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It was just an example of a class of vulnerabilities which would be possible
with these changes. If they, as you said, will preserve the last frame on
screen when the compositor crashes.
If your compositor crashes something should take over, either fbdev
(which force-restores) or a new compositor (system one or just the one
that crashed, restarted). And on modern userspace logind has copies of
the fds which it uses to make sure priviledges (i.e. master rights)
don't escape to the wrong person.
The famous "should". fbdev is going out no? And attack just needs to
prevent compositor from starting again. Or a bug somewhere needs to do
that. Fact remains, before this = black screen, after this = last frame
with bank details or similar.
Change makes the scenario more likely, so what is the justification?
Only that modeset is hard on framebuffer owner exiting?
For me this is serious enough not to go this route.
If that doesn't happen you have yet another bug in userspace. I don't
think there's a real problem really.
If white hats had the imagination of black hats there would be no
problems whatsoever. :)
Tvrtko
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