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Date: Tue Apr 12 21:23:08 2005 From: dk at pwarchitects.com (dk) Subject: linux bugs (survival stories)? Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:06:59 +0545, Bipin Gautam said: > >>BUT i was woundering, to what extent adding these extra security >>measures are effective against the real attacks & bugs discovered in >>the kernel. > > > They do almost nothing to guard against bugs discovered *in the kernel*, > because all of them are addressing *userspace* bugs. DING DING! Once again, Valdis hits the point(s) dead on. I am still surprised at the number of times I get this question when the topic comes up. It seems fairly straight forward & is usually mentioned in a project's documentation (PaX, etc..) or forums. -- dk
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