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Re: [Xen-devel] severe security issue on dom0/xend/xm/non-root users

To: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] severe security issue on dom0/xend/xm/non-root users
From: Kurt Garloff <kurt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:09:32 +0100
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Hi Rik,

On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:00:27AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> > Why not just require the other end of the socket to be below 1024?
> > If you bind to localhost, that should be enough.
> 
> Because the ability to open connections from ports < 1024
> is a capability, which can be retained by daemons after
> dropping the other root privileges.

Right.
But I don't see a problem with this.

Regards,
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Kurt Garloff                   <kurt@xxxxxxxxxx>             [Koeln, DE]
Physics:Plasma modeling <garloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [TU Eindhoven, NL]
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