[PATCH] execve argument logging

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Fri Apr 21 20:23:39 UTC 2006


On Friday 21 April 2006 16:19, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> Does this allow an attacker to DoS the audit log by creating a fork/exec
> loop intentionally invoking a totally duff binary, but that includes a very
> long argument?

I personally haven't tried. Try it and let us know if you can DoS the machine.

> Maybe a "first 32/64 bytes of each argument" limit is needed?  Or is there
> one there and I missed it?

There's no limit other than what the kernel imposes.

-Steve




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