hardening the kernel

hardening the kernel

Posted Dec 13, 2003 19:16 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Use grsecurity on critical machines! by penguinroar
Parent article: Lessons from the Debian compromise

Some kind of self check of the kernel against a hash only readable and written once at boot maybe?

Maybe, but that wouldn't be a lesson learned from this incident. The kernel wasn't modified. (The problem is that the cracker was able to read kernel memory).

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