CAP_SYSLOG was separated from CAP_SYS_ADMIN and introduced in Linux
2.6.37 (2010-11). For a long time, certain syslog actions required
CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_SYSLOG. Maybe it’s time to officially remove
CAP_SYS_ADMIN for more fine-grained control.
CAP_SYS_ADMIN was once removed but added back for backwards
compatibility reasons. In commit 38ef4c2e437d ("syslog: check cap_syslog
when dmesg_restrict") (2010-12), CAP_SYS_ADMIN was no longer needed. And
in commit ee24aebffb75 ("cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now")
(2011-02), it was accepted again. Since then, CAP_SYS_ADMIN has been
preserved.
Now that almost 13 years have passed, the legacy application may have
had enough time to be updated.
Signed-off-by: Jingzi Meng <mengjingzi@iie.ac.cn>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240105062007.26965-1-mengjingzi@iie.ac.cn
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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