linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20070123084427.GA5560@ucw.cz>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:44:28 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@...lingofgreen.ru>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Wagner <daw@...berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

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
-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/