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0400 /proc/kallsyms not in 2.6.37

0400 /proc/kallsyms not in 2.6.37

Posted Nov 20, 2010 0:56 UTC (Sat) by spender (subscriber, #23067)
Parent article: Making attacks a little harder

FYI, the patch has been reverted:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-...

-Brad


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0400 /proc/kallsyms not in 2.6.37

Posted Dec 8, 2010 12:27 UTC (Wed) by kevinm (guest, #69913) [Link]

Anyone who wants the effect can simply add:

chmod 400 /proc/kallsyms

to their /etc/rc.local or similar.

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