From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@feelingofgreen.ru>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:44:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070123084427.GA5560@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sle3x82o.wl@betelheise.deep.net>
Hi!
> > nor will they work if the sysadmin applies a security update and glibc
> > or another library changes one page in size. Or changes the stack rlimit
> > or .. or ..
>
> Now, i figured out, there is a certain reasonable safety gap which works
> for people, because the libraries depended on are well known.
>
> What happens with AS randomisation, is that the variance is simply too
> large. But what is more important, is that vendors do modifications
> which change the amount of randomisation, which means that potentially
Complain to vendors, not here.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-23 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-20 14:37 [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness Samium Gromoff
2007-01-20 16:12 ` Samium Gromoff
2007-01-20 21:58 ` David Wagner
2007-01-21 2:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-21 21:38 ` Samium Gromoff
2007-01-21 22:09 ` Samium Gromoff
2007-01-21 22:16 ` David Wagner
2007-01-22 0:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-22 1:15 ` Samium Gromoff
2007-01-22 17:52 ` Samium Gromoff
2007-01-23 8:44 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-21 23:23 Samium Gromoff
2007-01-21 23:34 ` David Wagner
2007-01-22 0:36 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-01-22 1:53 ` Samium Gromoff
2007-02-24 9:40 ` Florian Weimer
2007-02-24 13:33 ` Samium Gromoff
2007-02-24 13:49 ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-22 15:20 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-01-22 17:39 ` Samium Gromoff
2007-01-23 8:48 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-23 14:03 ` Samium Gromoff
2007-01-23 15:41 ` Alan
2007-02-24 9:51 ` Florian Weimer
2007-02-24 13:36 ` Samium Gromoff
2007-01-31 9:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-01 8:05 ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-22 0:54 Samium Gromoff
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