full-disclosure - linux bugs (survival stories)?

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Message-ID: <425C2E8F.1060904@pwarchitects.com>
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