linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ARM ATTEND] catching up on exploit mitigations

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Message-ID: <20130730231120.GC30725@blackmetal.musicnaut.iki.fi>
Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2013 02:11:20 +0300
From:	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ARM ATTEND] catching up on exploit
 mitigations

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 06:14:35PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:05:40PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>  > - fuzzing (is anyone running trinity or similar on the ARM tree?)
>  
> Someone was kind enough to send me an arm chromebook, so I tried this just
> last week (albeit, on the 3.4 kernel it shipped with). The results make
> me think the answer is a resounding 'no'.

Shouldn't you run trinity only under QEMU or similar virtual
environment? Don't know about chromebook, but on some of my ARM boards
a misbehaving kernel could at least in theory brick the board...

A.
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