Bug 199041

Summary:	Mount /proc with nosuid,noexec flags by defaulf
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dawid Gajownik <gajownik>
Component:	mkinitrd	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	davej, notting
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Description Dawid Gajownik 2006-07-16 11:42:57 UTC

Description of problem:
Maybe /proc should be mounted by default with noexec,nosuid flags? This can
increase security in some way.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. grep proc /etc/fstab

Additional info:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/40511/focus=40511
http://lwn.net/Articles/191531/

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2006-07-17 13:49:58 UTC

The initramfs mounts proc. Of course, if this is that important, why not just
set it that way *in the kernel*?

Comment 2 Dave Jones 2006-07-26 04:06:00 UTC

The linux-2.6-defaults-* patches are really starting to pile up.
If you feel strongly about this issue, argue it upstream in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org or linux-kernel.org