[PATCH 01/12] Security: Add CAP_COMPROMISE_KERNEL

Matthew Garrett matthew.garrett at nebula.com
Wed Mar 20 12:49:26 EDT 2013


On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 12:41 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:

> Matthrew, perhaps you could clarify whether this will be tied to MAC
> security.  Based on the kexec thread, I'm under the impression that is
> not the intention, or at least not for kexec.  As root isn't trusted,
> neither is the boot command line, nor any policy that is loaded by root,
> including those for MAC.

The work done on signed initramfs fragments would seem to be the best
option here so far?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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