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  2. JDK-7083329

Limited doPrivileged

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    • Enhancement
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • P3
    • 8
    • 8
    • security-libs
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    • generic
    • generic
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    Description

      The basic idea is to allow code to assert a subset of it's privileges without
      otherwise preventing the full access control stack walk for other permissions.

      For example, some bootstrap jre code asserts a privilege to GET a configuration
      file via http....

          AccessController.doPrivileged(anon class..., new URLPermission(url, request
      props..., "GET")

         A checkPermission() for a matching URLPermission (done by the http handler)
      would stop walking the acc stack at that doPrivileged() and succeed. However, a
      non-matching URLPermission or a FilePermission, for example, would match the jre
      class's generally assigned privileges and continue walking the full acc stack as
      if the limited doPrivileged() had not been invoked.

      These limited privileges are also captured by getAccessControlContext() and
      thread inheritance.

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              jdn Jeffrey Nisewanger (Inactive)
              mullan Sean Mullan
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