Re: New Apache policy

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:37:10PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> I suggest that you contact the Subversion developers and ask their opinion on
> what the security policy should be. Of course we won't necessarily accept
> what they say, but it will be useful to get some input from them.

That is a good idea, I will try it.

> > Also, I may think about restricting _local_ access for these tools,
> > because they are connecting outwards to potentially hacked and/or
> > malicious servers.
>
> True. Of course if you download, compile, and run code from a potentially
> hacked server then an exploit of a Subversion bug is the least of your
> worries...

Yes, but you might either not intend to run it (it may not even be something executable, I keep documentation in CVS, for example) or you may execute it in a chroot or other restricted environment (simply labeling the resulting binary with some special bin_untrusted_t might be what you prefer).

One way or the other, this is the larger question of how to deal with foreign executables and for now I'd like to leave that to the local sysadmin. He may already have a good policy in place.

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