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From: Martin Bene <martin.bene@×××××××××.com>
To: Alexander Gabert <pappy@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-hardened@g.o
Subject: AW: [gentoo-hardened] Question WRT Grsecurity/PAx and AV Scanner
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:36:31
Message-Id: 4D618F6493CE064A844A5D496733D667031C51@freedom.icomedias.com
1 Hi Alex,
2
3 >sorry to interrupt your thoughts, but gcc trampolines are not used for
4 >such things :-(
5
6 I'll take your word for it :-)
7
8 >> Is there any way of running an executable with modified
9 >> grsecurity options
10 >> without changing the on-disk file with chpax?
11 >yes, there is
12 >with an enabled grsec system, you have to put grsecurity acl PaX flags
13 >for the kaspersky binary:
14
15 Thanks for the pointer; turns out it's good and bad news:
16
17 The good news: Yep, in a system with active grsec acls that works as
18 expected.
19
20 The bad news: setting up the system so it works with active grsec acl is NOT
21 a trivial task :-) Still trying to get basic system functionality working
22 without error messages, not succeeded yet.
23
24 Currently I'm trying to understand these log entries:
25
26 Sep 17 22:13:13 firewall kernel:
27 grsec: From 10.192.14.130: denied access to hidden file /dev/urandom
28 by
29 (gradm:27705) UID(0) EUID(0), parent (bash:17833) UID(0) EUID(0)
30
31 Sep 17 22:00:22 firewall kernel:
32 grsec: From 10.192.14.130: denied open of /dev/urandom for reading by
33
34 (sshd:29575) UID(0) EUID(0), parent (sshd:25465) UID(0S
35
36 Which I get when using the default acls from grsecurity-base-policy-20030614;
37 these specify (excerpt)
38
39 / {
40 /
41 /dev
42 /dev/random r
43 /dev/urandom r
44 }
45
46 Which I'd have expected to enable read access for /dev/urandom for all
47 processess. So where do these come from?
48
49 Oh, well I guess this is going to take some more time :-)
50
51 Bye, Martin
52
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Re: AW: [gentoo-hardened] Question WRT Grsecurity/PAx and AV Scanner "Lamont R. Peterson" <lrp@××××××××.com>