Re: [PATCH v3 0/1] Restrict access to TIOCLINUX

Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:45:21 +0200
Newsgroups com.openwall.lists.kernel-hardening
Organization I am not organized
Message-ID <20230828164521.tpvubdufa62g7zwc@begin>
Günther Noack, le lun. 28 août 2023 18:41:16 +0200, a ecrit:
> The number of affected programs should be much lower than it was the case for
> TIOCSTI (as TIOCLINUX only applies to virtual terminals), and even in the
> TIOCLINUX case, only a handful of legitimate use cases were mentioned.  (BRLTTY,
> tcsh, Emacs, special versions of "mail").  I have high confidence that GPM is
> the only existing usage of that copy-and-paste feature.

BRLTTY also uses it. It is also admin, so your change is fine :)

FI, https://codesearch.debian.net/ is a very convenient tool to check
what FOSS might be using something.

Samuel