Hi,

Le mardi 21 mai 2013 à 14:57 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe a écrit :
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:43:05PM +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> > libibverbs must refuse to load arbitrary shared objects.
> > 
> > This patch check the configuration directory and files for
> > - being owned by root;
> > - not being writable by others.
> 
> I really don't like this. Is there some exploit against /etc/ now that
> requires this sort of checking?
> 

Loading shared object as part of a setuid binary should be handled with
extra care.
Adding checks to the configuration loader is required so that only
trusted shared object get loaded.

Regards.

-- 
Yann Droneaud
OPTEYA

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