netdev - Re: [Security] [SECURITY] Fix leaking of kernel heap addresses via /proc

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Message-ID: <87sjzcssx5.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:52:22 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>,
	"chas\@cmf.nrl.navy.mil" <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>,
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	"kuznet\@ms2.inr.ac.ru" <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
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	"security\@kernel.org" <security@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Security] [SECURITY] Fix leaking of kernel heap addresses via /proc

Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> writes:

> Are there any userspace programs that might be reasonably expected to
> _use_ this information?  If there is, we could just pick a random
> number at boot time, and then XOR the heap adddress with that random
> number.

If any of the addresses can be guessed ever (and that is likely if it's
allocated at boot) determining the random value will be trivial
for everyone.

-Andi

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ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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