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From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Fri 15 Oct 2004 - 16:18:42 BST


On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:22:08PM -0400, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:
>
> I noticed that in vs 1.9.3 ping appears to work even without CAP_NET_RAW
> (This is Fedora Core 2).
>
> Just curious, how's this possible?

we developed some kind of magic which allows to
open raw ICMP sockets but forbids the other
RAW sockets, in such way that it seems a little
more secure ...

removing the VXC_RAW_ICMP context capability
will yield the old behaviour (without CAP_NET_RAW)

HTH,
Herbert

>
> Thanks!
>
> Grisha
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