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<div class="links"> '''[Vserver] [Release] Stable vs1.23 (improved security):'''<br /> <span class="small">vserver development mailing list</span> <br /> [<nowiki/>[[../|Next/Previous Months]]] [<nowiki/>[http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc Main vserver Project Homepage]] [<nowiki/>[http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/mlist/index.hc?list=vserver Howto Subscribe/Unsubscribe]] [<nowiki/>[http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/ Paul Sladen's vserver stuff]] </div> <div align="center"> {| class="wikitable" border="2" width="100%" |- ! [[../|About this list]] ! [[date.html|Date view]] ! [[index.html|Thread view]] ! [[subject.html|Subject view]] ! [[author.html|Author view]] ! [[attachment.html|Attachment view]] |} </div> '''From:''' Herbert Poetzl ([mailto:herbert_at_13thfloor.at?Subject=Re:%20%5BVserver%5D%20%5BRelease%5D%20Stable%20vs1.23%20(improved%20security) ''herbert_at_13thfloor.at''])<br /> '''Date:''' Mon 12 Jan 2004 - 06:10:41 GMT * '''Previous message:''' [[0124.html|Herbert Poetzl: "Re: [Vserver] "/VM1/etc/inittab" error msg"]] * '''Next in thread:''' [[0126.html|Luís Miguel Silva: "RE: [Vserver] [Release] Stable vs1.23 (improved security)"]] * '''Reply:''' [[0126.html|Luís Miguel Silva: "RE: [Vserver] [Release] Stable vs1.23 (improved security)"]] * '''Reply:''' [[0127.html|Joey Esquibal: "Re: [Vserver] [Release] Stable vs1.23 (improved security)"]] ----- Hello Community!<br /> hopefully the final bugfix release of the second<br /> linux-vserver stable release (1.23) is now<br /> available at<br /> http://www.13thfloor.at/vserver/s_release/v1.23/<br /> you can download an all-in-one patch for 2.4.24<br /> as well as tar archives of the splitup ...<br /> (patches for older kernels available on request)<br /> this release fixes another locking issue, this<br /> time within the /proc filesystem, and adds a very<br /> important security interface, to protect entries<br /> against unwanted access.<br /> older tools (especially tools for 1.22) should<br /> work but util-vserver-0.26 or later is recommended.<br /> new proc security feature:<br /> by using the vproc tool (provided in vproc-0.1.tar)<br /> it is now possible to limit the visibility of proc<br /> entries to either the host, the special context one,<br /> or both, according to your preference.<br /> note: by default all proc entries are visible and<br /> therefore accessible via read and write on all<br /> contexts, only restricted by the linux capability<br /> system, which is equivalent to the setup in all<br /> earlier versions.<br /> (using the entry meminfo as example)<br /> vproc /proc/meminfo (shows current visibility)<br /> <br /> vproc -d /proc/meminfo (hide in user context)<br /> vproc -D /proc/meminfo (hide in any context)<br /> vproc -E /proc/meminfo (show only in ctx one)<br /> vproc -e /proc/meminfo (default: visible)<br /> please make sure to disable dangerous entries<br /> which are not required in a vserver anyway, like<br /> hardware interfaces (ide,bus,pci,scsi) or kernel<br /> interfaces (kmem,iomem,ioports,sys,...)<br /> note: symbolic links and dynamically generated<br /> entries like /proc/<pid> can not be masked by this<br /> interface yet ...<br /> enjoy,<br /> Herbert<br /> _______________________________________________<br /> Vserver mailing list<br /> [mailto:Vserver_at_list.linux-vserver.org?Subject=Re:%20%5BVserver%5D%20%5BRelease%5D%20Stable%20vs1.23%20(improved%20security) Vserver_at_list.linux-vserver.org]<br /> http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver<br /> ----- * '''Previous message:''' [[0124.html|Herbert Poetzl: "Re: [Vserver] "/VM1/etc/inittab" error msg"]] * '''Next in thread:''' [[0126.html|Luís Miguel Silva: "RE: [Vserver] [Release] Stable vs1.23 (improved security)"]] * '''Reply:''' [[0126.html|Luís Miguel Silva: "RE: [Vserver] [Release] Stable vs1.23 (improved security)"]] * '''Reply:''' [[0127.html|Joey Esquibal: "Re: [Vserver] [Release] Stable vs1.23 (improved security)"]] <div align="center"> {| class="wikitable" border="2" width="100%" |- ! [[../|About this list]] ! [[date.html|Date view]] ! [[index.html|Thread view]] ! [[subject.html|Subject view]] ! [[author.html|Author view]] ! [[attachment.html|Attachment view]] |} </div> <div align="center"> [<nowiki/>[[../|Next/Previous Months]]] [<nowiki/>[http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc Main vserver Project Homepage]] [<nowiki/>[http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/mlist/index.hc?list=vserver Howto Subscribe/Unsubscribe]] [<nowiki/>[http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/ Paul Sladen's vserver stuff]]<br /> <span class="small">Generated on Mon 12 Jan 2004 - 06:11:46 GMT by [http://www.hypermail.org/ hypermail 2.1.3]</span> </div>
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