SELinuxDenyPtrace: Write, compile, run, but don't debug applications?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:26:50AM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > To a first approximation, simply auditing the distribution for anything 
> > that opens files or reads information from the network and forbidding 
> > them ptrace access (and denying ptrace access from any existing confined 
> > domains except, maybe, staff_t) seems like it would get us most of the 
> > way to option 4 without breaking existing user expectations. What am I 
> > missing that makes this infeasible?
> 
> That would leave just "Hello, world!" style programs (as long as they
> aren't in some way localized, like the GNU version is).

Yeah, that's a bit broad. The 99% case would probably be anything that 
reads from the network or opens PDFs or doc files.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org