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Re: [Xen-devel] severe security issue on dom0/xend/xm/non-root users



Kurt Garloff wrote:
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 04:14:24PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Tommi Virtanen wrote:

That's not good design. I sincerely think access to any confidential
or security conscious part of xen should be limited, e.g. with a
unix domain socket located in a directory only readable by a certain
group.

Good point, then we could use filesystem permissions
and/or selinux policy to restrict who gets access to
xend.

Why not just require the other end of the socket to be below 1024?

Please don't. The permission should be something that can be specifically
granted to a user or group id, not that requires root. Requiring root
tends to cause as many security problems as it solves.

If you bind to localhost, that should be enough.

xm would then use a privileged socket if it can (i.e. if called as root).

Using an selinux policy for this would be aiming cannons at sparrows
(german saying, in english that's breaking a fly on the wheel).

"using a sledgehammer to crack a nut".

--
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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