Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Re: securelevel=2 and mount hardening

Stuart Henderson writes:

> I think you'd need to disable mount completely, otherwise you can mount
> a new writable filesystem (e.g. MFS) that doesn't have noexec.

Yeah, I completely missed that vector. And really, that makes more
sense. How often do you live mount filesystems on a firewall?

Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and code this up so I can try
it on a running production firewall. I'll add in a sysctl
to control if secureleve=2 mounts are allowed at all.

--lyndon

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