linux/include
Dan Rosenberg eaf06b241b Restrict unprivileged access to kernel syslog
The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful
during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap
addresses.  Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or
thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful
debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that
prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog.

This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the
dmesg_restrict sysctl.  When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are
enforced.  When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the
kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'misc' into release 2010-10-26 14:51:00 -04:00
asm-generic asm-generic/stat.h: support 64-bit file time_t for stat() 2010-11-01 15:31:29 -04:00
crypto Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
drm Merge remote branch 'intel/drm-intel-next' of ../drm-next into drm-core-next 2010-10-26 09:23:22 +10:00
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linux Restrict unprivileged access to kernel syslog 2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
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media Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2010-10-28 09:35:11 -07:00
mtd mtd: Define MLC Flash as a different flash type 2010-10-25 00:50:20 +01:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-11-05 15:25:48 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: IOCARD is also required for using IRQs 2010-10-22 08:46:36 +02:00
rdma IB/core: Add VLAN support for IBoE 2010-10-25 10:20:39 -07:00
rxrpc
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trace ext4: Add new ext4 inode tracepoints 2010-11-08 13:51:33 -05:00
video Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/genesis-2.6 into devel-stable 2010-10-28 20:14:38 +01:00
xen Merge branch 'stable/xen-pcifront-0.8.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen 2010-10-28 17:11:17 -07:00
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