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From: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@eradicator.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Aloni <karrde@callisto.yi.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breaking bug exploits
Date: 03 Jan 2001 22:41:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d7e4j86m.fsf@monolith.cepstral.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101032259550.20246-100000@callisto.yi.org> <87hf3gj94q.fsf@monolith.cepstral.com> <20010104043244.A16413@gruyere.muc.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: Andi Kleen's message of "Thu, 4 Jan 2001 04:32:44 +0100"

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:20:37PM -0500, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> > Dan Aloni <karrde@callisto.yi.org> writes:
> > 
> > > This preliminary, small patch prevents execution of system calls which
> > > were executed from a writable segment.
> > 
> > How does signal return work, then?
> 
> Newer glibc sets a sa_restorer.

Hmm, maybe sigaction(2) should stop documenting it as "obsolete and
should not be used" then :-)

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-01-04  3:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-03 21:13 [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breaking bug exploits Dan Aloni
2001-01-03 21:36 ` Dan Aloni
2001-01-03 21:48 ` [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breaking bugexploits Brian Gerst
2001-01-03 21:54 ` [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breaking bug exploits Alexander Viro
2001-01-03 22:03   ` Dan Aloni
2001-01-03 22:13     ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-03 22:05   ` Steven Walter
2001-01-03 22:07   ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-03 22:10     ` Doug McNaught
2001-01-03 22:31     ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-03 22:39       ` Mark Zealey
2001-01-03 22:49         ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-03 22:55           ` Mark Zealey
2001-01-03 22:48       ` Dan Aloni
2001-01-03 23:02         ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-03 23:32         ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-03 23:48           ` Nicolas Noble
2001-01-03 23:54           ` Gerhard Mack
2001-01-03 23:57             ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-04  0:34               ` Gerhard Mack
2001-01-04  1:01                 ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-04  7:09                   ` Gerhard Mack
2001-01-03 23:34         ` Gerhard Mack
2001-01-04  1:51   ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-03 21:57 ` Erik Mouw
2001-01-03 22:12 ` Nicolas Noble
2001-01-03 22:30 ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-03 23:02 ` [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breaking bug Alan Cox
2001-01-05 15:26   ` 2.2.19pre6 maestro3 driver requires ac97_codec (but doesn't claim so) Richard A Nelson
2001-01-03 23:20 ` [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breaking bug exploits Jeff Dike
2001-01-04  3:20 ` David Huggins-Daines
2001-01-04  3:32   ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-04  3:41     ` David Huggins-Daines [this message]

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