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[opensuse] Re: A BIG "show stopper" for openSUSE at the corporate level anyway!!
- From: Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:36:43 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <g53b1b$vc3$4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:02:31 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I see. So the system initiates programs - sometimes programs that are
untrusted? Perhaps sometimes programs that are *infected* with something?
Sure, but it wouldn't be the apache binaries that were at issue. It'd be
whatever it was that apache *called* that behaved badly.
Jim
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No, it prevents a program initiated by the system, a program serving
some service, from accessing things it was not designed to access. And
it doesn't mean the user did something wrong: it may be that a cracker
found a hole and violated apache.
I see. So the system initiates programs - sometimes programs that are
untrusted? Perhaps sometimes programs that are *infected* with something?
Even if an on-access-scanner scanned the apache binary chances are it
wouldn't find anything wrong... because linux binaries are very diverse.
Sure, but it wouldn't be the apache binaries that were at issue. It'd be
whatever it was that apache *called* that behaved badly.
Jim
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