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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com"
	<kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:35:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGXu5jK8rfT8sPvJ5thrD4Abb7jFG=PVMzJB6SBkQKU33Dzq1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160119112812.GA10818@mwanda>

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 3:28 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> Many of the use-after-free and uninitialized data bugs would be less
> harmful if we had some kernel hardening patches.

I think this nicely underscores the importance of all the hardening
efforts, especially Laura's PAX_MEMORY_SANITIZE port. And with the
recent keyring issue, having David's PAX_REFCOUNT port too. It's all
coming along (slowly). :)

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-19 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-19 11:28 [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Dan Carpenter
2016-01-19 11:49 ` Hanno Böck
2016-01-19 15:49   ` Quentin Casasnovas
2016-01-20 11:19   ` Hanno Böck
2016-01-20 14:15     ` Wade Mealing
2016-01-20 17:48       ` Hanno Böck
2016-01-19 13:13 ` Wade Mealing
2016-01-19 14:56 ` [kernel-hardening] " One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-19 16:32 ` [kernel-hardening] " Ben Hutchings
2016-01-19 17:54   ` Greg KH
2016-01-20 17:05     ` Ben Hutchings
2016-01-20 18:04       ` Greg KH
2016-01-21 15:18         ` Jiri Kosina
2016-01-21 18:46         ` Ben Hutchings
2016-01-19 16:57 ` [kernel-hardening] " Peter Hurley
2016-01-19 17:00   ` Josh Boyer
2016-01-19 17:51     ` Greg KH
2016-01-20  7:12       ` Marcus Meissner
2016-01-19 17:57 ` [kernel-hardening] " Theodore Ts'o
2016-01-19 18:00 ` [kernel-hardening] " Al Viro
2016-01-19 22:41   ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-01-19 22:47 ` [kernel-hardening] " Eric W. Biederman
2016-01-20 20:11   ` Jann Horn
2016-01-20 21:26     ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-19 23:35 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2016-01-20  9:57 ` [kernel-hardening] " Miroslav Benes

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