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Re: SE Linux play machine



On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:37, Mark Eichin wrote:
> > It has permissions to write to ttys,
>
> Hmm, so if you've got a privileged login on some tty, is it vulnerable
> to TIOCSTI?

No, a priv login changes the SE security context of the tty device for the 
session, and it can't be written to or read from by unpriv processes.

Try it.  ;)

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