Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 2228] Stop capture doesn't work

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:29:53 +0000 (GMT)
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2228





--- Comment #5 from Peter <pva@xxxxxxxxxx>  2008-03-20 19:29:46 GMT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Arun, Peter, & Bill, are each of you configuring Wireshark with or without
> POSIX capabilities (libcap)?

Yes, with libcap.
camobap ~ # readelf -d /usr/bin/dumpcap | grep NEEDED
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libwiretap.so.0]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libglib-2.0.so.0]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libpcap.so.0]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libcap.so.2]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libpthread.so.0]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libc.so.6]
camobap ~ # ls -al /usr/bin/dumpcap
-r-sr-s--- 1 root wireshark 50880 Мар 19 01:10 /usr/bin/dumpcap

> If dumpcap is setuid and it's not linked with libcap, it may not be able to
> change its userid back to the calling user.

It definitely change it's userid:
camobap ~ # ps axu | grep [d]umpcap
pva      28428  0.0  0.0   3172  1008 pts/13   S+   Mar18   0:00
/usr/bin/dumpcap -i ath0 -Z none

> should be able to kill dumpcap (although even this may not be the case as
> discussed in the linux-security-module mailing list thread linked in my last
> comment).

And seems that this is the issue. "setcap cap_kill=ep /usr/bin/wireshark" fixes
my issue. But I still need to understand this issue deeper to properly fix it
in Gentoo.


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