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RE: [Xen-devel] severe security issue on dom0/xend/xm/non-root users
> > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> > > Why not just require the other end of the socket to be below 1024?
> > > If you bind to localhost, that should be enough.
> >
> > Because the ability to open connections from ports < 1024
> > is a capability, which can be retained by daemons after
> > dropping the other root privileges.
I think this is a good first step, and pretty easy to implement.
Volunteers?
With the next generation of tools we could insist on using SSL and thus
that the client have an appropriate certificate.
Thanks,
Ian
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