Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> writes: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> Quoting Josh Boyer (jwbo...@fedoraproject.org): >>> What you're saying is true for the "oh crap" case of a new userns >>> related CVE being found. However, there is the case where sysadmins >>> know for a fact that a set of machines should not allow user >>> namespaces to be enabled. Currently they have 2 choices, 1) use their >> >> Hi - can you give a specific example of this? (Where users really should >> not be able to use them - not where they might not need them) I think >> it'll help the discussion tremendously. Because so far the only good >> arguments I've seen have been about actual bugs in the user namespaces, >> which would not warrant a designed-in permanent disable switch. If >> there are good use cases where such a disable switch will always be >> needed (and compiling out can't satisfy) that'd be helpful. > > My example is a machine in a colo rack serving web pages. A site gets > attacked, and www-data uses user namespaces to continue their attack > to gain root privileges. > > The admin of such a machine could have disabled userns months earlier > and limited the scope of the attack.
Of course for the paranoid there is already a mechanism to do this. /sbin/chroot. No new user namespaces are allowed to be created inside of a chroot. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
