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From: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@ieee.org>
To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Cc: selinux-refpolicy@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] some little stuff
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:04:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34bdee18-433e-5e8e-088e-6c209d70fa37@ieee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2480376.JRpnWL4ehX@liv>

On 1/15/19 2:47 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 January 2019 6:28:35 AM AEDT Chris PeBenito wrote:
>>> Index: refpolicy-2.20180701/policy/modules/system/systemd.te
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- refpolicy-2.20180701.orig/policy/modules/system/systemd.te
>>> +++ refpolicy-2.20180701/policy/modules/system/systemd.te
>>> @@ -337,6 +337,10 @@ optional_policy(`
>>> networkmanager_dbus_chat(systemd_hostnamed_t)
>>> ')
>>>
>>> +optional_policy(`
>>> +       unconfined_dbus_send(systemd_hostnamed_t)
>>> +')
>>
>> This comment:
>>
>> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/issues/18#issuecomment-452316615
>>
>> makes me rethink all dbus sends to unconfined domains, especially
>> unconfined_t.  This here isn't all confined domains, but I want more
>> consideration for the perm.
> 
> That comment is about allowing all domains to send to unconfined_t.  Allowing
> specific domains like systemd_hostnamed_t to send to unconfined_t doesn't seem
> like a problem.  It doesn't seem likely that an attack via dbus would start
> with a systemd domain, especially not one like systemd_hostnamed_t.

It's applicable to confined domains sending messages to unconfined 
domains.  What compounds my concern is that there is no similar access 
for confined users, so where is this coming from? (what's happening?)

-- 
Chris PeBenito

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-16 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-11 10:30 [PATCH] some little stuff Russell Coker
2019-01-12 19:28 ` Chris PeBenito
2019-01-15  7:47   ` Russell Coker
2019-01-15  8:36     ` Dominick Grift
2019-01-16 23:04     ` Chris PeBenito [this message]

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