Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: YAMA SECURITY MODULE

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Am 08.07.20 um 10:05 schrieb Kees Cook:
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 09:33:46AM +0200, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
   If not .svg:
     For each line:
       If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
         For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
	  If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
             If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
             return 200 OK and serve the same content:
               Replace HTTP with HTTPS.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  Continuing my work started at 93431e0607e5.
  See also: git log --oneline '--author=Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>' v5.7..master
  (Actually letting a shell for loop submit all this stuff for me.)

  If there are any URLs to be removed completely or at least not HTTPSified:
  Just clearly say so and I'll *undo my change*.
As written here...

  See also: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/27/64

  If there are any valid, but yet not changed URLs:
  See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/26/837

  If you apply the patch, please let me know.


  Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst
index d0a060de3973..64fd62507ae5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ of their attack without resorting to user-assisted phishing.
This is not a theoretical problem. SSH session hijacking
  (http://www.storm.net.nz/projects/7) and arbitrary code injection

This link is dead. It is likely best replaced by:
... I'd undo this change.
But as it's the only one here, just forget this patch.

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-05/bh-us-05-boileau.pdf
(this is the same person, but it seems storm.net.nz is gone)

-(http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2007/05/injectso.html) attacks already
+(https://c-skills.blogspot.com/2007/05/injectso.html) attacks already
  exist and remain possible if ptrace is allowed to operate as before.
  Since ptrace is not commonly used by non-developers and non-admins, system
  builders should be allowed the option to disable this debugging system.

With that change:

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

for the docs tree.




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