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Re: [AppArmor 00/41] AppArmor security module overview
From: Pavel Machek <pavel_at_nospam>Date: Thu Apr 12 2007 - 13:50:29 GMT
To: jjohansen@suse.de
Hi!
> AppArmor's Overall Design
> =========================
>
> AppArmor protects systems from vulnerable software by confining
> processes, giving them "least privilege" access to the system's
> resources: with least privilege, processes are allowed exactly what they
> need, nothing more, and nothing less. Systems are thus protected from
> bugs in applications that would lead to privilege escalation, such as
> remote system access because of a buffer overflow in a web server, etc.
>
> AppArmor does this by defining application profiles which list allowed
> accesses, and assigning those profiles to processes. AppArmor does *not*
You can do the same with ptrace. If that's not fast enough... improve ptrace?
> The corollary to this is that attacks against AppArmor that start with
> "assume some unconfined process does ..." are outside the AppArmor
> threat model. Any process that might do something malicious to an
IOW AppArmor is broken by design. (One reason is: operations by unconfined processes that did not use to be security sensitive before -- ln shadow random_name -- are security sensitive now.)
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