Quoting Mahesh Bandewar (mahesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx): > From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Add a sysctl variable kernel.controlled_userns_caps_whitelist. This I understand the arguments in favor of whitelists in most cases for security purposes. But given that you've said the goal here is to prevent use of a capability in a user namespace when a CVE has been found, a whitelist seems the wrong choice, since 1. it means that an attacker may through some other means be able to add a capability back into the whitelist when you specifically wanted to drop it. With a blacklist, you could say "once a cap has been dropped it can never be re-added without rebooting". 2. it means by default all capabilities will be denied once the switch is pulled which is specifically not what you want in this case. 3. the admin can't just say "drop CAP_NET_ADMIN", but needs to know to echo ~CAP_NET_ADMIN. Why not make it a blacklist, and once a cap is dropped it can never be re-added? -serge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
