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Kernel security, year to date

Kernel security, year to date

Posted Sep 11, 2008 10:01 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Kernel security, year to date by spender
Parent article: Kernel security, year to date

It seems like we should add CAP_LOW_MAP_FIXED to me, set off for virtually everything other than Wine (and the X server, and perhaps a few Lisp interpreters?), and deny MAP_FIXED mmap()s in the low megabyte or so of the address space to processes without that capability. It's not as though most programs would *want* to torpedo their own ability to segfault on null pointer dereferences!


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