Re: Preventing curl | bash

Manuel Wolfshant <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.selinux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On October 17, 2018 10:00:53 AM GMT+03:00, Thomas Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>On 10/16/2018 11:15 AM, Sheogorath wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> it's mostly a question out of curiosity but maybe useful for some
>people.
>>
>> I wonder if there is a way to prevent a direct piping from curl to
>bash
>> using SELinux.
>>
>> And of course one can download a file and then run bash on it, but a
>> simple rule that prevents direct piping would at least give a heads
>up
>> about it.
>
>sounds not like something I would implement. And you don't give much 
>context to your situation.
>
>What do you like to prevent? Stop users with root-shells to execut 
>arbitary shell scripts obtained by curl?


It's a common idiocy we (sysadmins) face in the web world: programmers need "something" and find a tutorial which instructs them to download some bundle which self-installs via the infamous mantra under discussion in this thread. Obviously preceded by a sudo (because why not ?)

Wolfy
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