[PATCH] KEYS: prevent creating a different user's keyrings
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Tue Sep 19 16:05:20 UTC 2017
Eric Biggers <ebiggers3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fix it by marking user and user session keyrings with a flag
> KEY_FLAG_UID_KEYRING. Then, when searching for a user or user session
> keyring by name, skip all keyrings that don't have the flag set.
I wonder if it's better just to reject attempts to manually create/join
keyrings of such names. PAM uses the implicit creation method of specifying
the 'macro' key IDs for these keyrings.
David
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