full-disclosure - linux bugs (survival stories)?

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Message-ID: <b18fbe3c050412142053df087f@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue Apr 12 22:20:13 2005
From: propolice at gmail.com (Eduardo Tongson)
Subject: linux bugs (survival stories)?

> >>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.

Stuff like for example circumventing noexec flags on mounted filesystems 
still is trivial even with the latest and development versions of the
linux kernel
I don't know if you could even consider it that sad.

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                                                    Eduardo Tongson     
                                                    <pornadmin.net/~tongson>