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It is my understanding that dhcpcd client requires root or a |
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privileged user. Am presently running dhcpcd in a chroot jail (ssp and |
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grsecurity-hardened kernel) as user root (ugh). (This is a laptop used |
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at hotspots, so I think I need to use dhcp). |
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Other distributions distribute dhcpcd with a "paranoia" patch incorporated |
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<http://www.episec.com/people/edelkind/patches/dhcp/dhcp-2.0+paranoia.patch> |
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which allows the dropping of privilege and changing of user/group after startup. |
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Questions: |
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1 Does Gentoo have an "official" way to apply this patch. |
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2 Presuming that it doesn't, I guess that I'll ebuild unpack: patch |
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the source manually; ebuild merge !? |
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3. Are there other ways to deal with this potential vulnerability |
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(privileged process listening on an open port (68) )? (e.g. using |
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selfdhcp and effecting a manual connection?) |
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TIA, newbie |
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