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Andrea Barisani wrote: |
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> Hi folks! |
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> I'd like to announce that Systrace is back in the portage tree, it consists |
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> of two packages: |
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> sys-apps/systrace |
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No, remove it. |
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> the userspace application that now features a ptrace backend in case the |
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> kernel patch is not installed. |
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> sys-kernel/systrace-sources |
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> this is standard kernel with our base patchset + systrace patch. |
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> We are trying to get this in hardened-sources as well, as I said you don't |
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> need the kernel patch to try this out, granted that the ptrace backend is |
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> much slower and really useful only for testing/debugging purposes, in the |
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> long run the patch is the way to go. |
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Absolutely not. |
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> Testing/feedback is appreciated. |
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Systrace has a broken security model which allows, among other things, |
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privilege escalation. It is our (hardened) opinion that it is harmful to |
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security and the cause of hardened. I ask you to remove it. If you don't |
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we cannot and will not support it, and will discourage its use among our |
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users. |
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