Article 4Z5GX Aleksandersen: Limit the impact of a security intrusion with systemd security directives

Aleksandersen: Limit the impact of a security intrusion with systemd security directives

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Daniel Aleksandersen showshow to sandbox a daemon process using a set of systemd features."These directives combined would have stopped the specific remotecode execution vulnerability that afflicted OpenSMTPD. However, the keytakeaway is that you should strive to sandbox long-running andinternet-exposed services. There's no need for your webserver to be able toload a kernel module, your email server to change the hostname, or your DNSserver to launch wget and schedule reoccurring tasks with cron."
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