proc: restrict access to /proc/PID/io
authorVasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:08:38 +0000 (16:08 +0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:39:11 +0000 (09:39 -0700)
/proc/PID/io may be used for gathering private information.  E.g.  for
openssh and vsftpd daemons wchars/rchars may be used to learn the
precise password length.  Restrict it to processes being able to ptrace
the target process.

ptrace_may_access() is needed to prevent keeping open file descriptor of
"io" file, executing setuid binary and gathering io information of the
setuid'ed process.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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