On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Tom Callaway
<tcallawa(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> I made an updated package (1.6.1) that has these fixes applied and sets
> the CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG capability to the dfbinfo binary. (Other DirectFB
> binaries probably need the same magic, but as I am not a DirectFB user,
> I can't really say which ones.)
Per
http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2522 , giving the
program CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG is basically equivalent to making it
setuid-root. Was the code designed to be run in such a risky setup?