Re: Hook function suggestion

From: buddy (buddyat_private)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 10:00:34 PDT

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    Amon Ott wrote:
    
    > On Don, 19 Apr 2001 buddy wrote:
    > > Now, the only thing I'm trying to say here, is that nobody seems to care about the
    > > reason *why* you would want to hook into, say, sys_fork(). There has been no
    > > discussion about the actual threats and insecurities that we want to cover.
    >
    > On GACI list, I already posted the a list of RSBAC hooks with some reasons and
    > call chains. I attached a slightly reworked version.
    
    Great, cheers! Looks very good to me.
    
    > After your rant about people just telling what they did: We all made our own
    > reflections about security impacts of certain functions. This is why the hooks
    
    You're right, I just got carried away. ;-) My concern is genuine though.
    
    > are there. So what is needed is:
    > - justification
    > - discussion
    > - importance rating, e.g. with levels
    > - compilation of useful hooks
    > - decision which ones to take for the final solution
    > - decision about config switches to select subsets
    
    Looks good too. ;-)
    
    A discussion of what the hooks could/should look like has already started
    in other threads but I'd like to explicitly add that to your list.
    
    
    Cheers,
    Buddy
    
    
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