Re: CVE-2021-4034: why is pkexec still a thing?

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On Fr, 28.01.22 12:25, Florian Weimer (fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> >> One issue is that it's harder to prevent other users from doing execve
> >> than it's denying them access to some IPC service.  In this sense, SUID
> >> programs are more robust.
> >
> > Well, that's precisely the problem that PK was supposed to address,
> > but then it descended down the JS rabbit hole...
>
> Not sure if we are talking about the same thing.  I meant flooding the
> local socket (or similar) with requests, not access control.

Well, making socket services scalable is not entirely trivial, but i
figure the number of parallel connections a Linux system should be
able to handle is still higher than the number of processes it allows
to run in parallel...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Berlin
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