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Message-ID: <20130227235757.GA1991@kroah.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:57:57 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request - Linux kernel: VFAT slab-based
buffer overflow
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:33:00AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > > Hmm, I wonder if perhaps the solution here isn't about spending a lot
> > > of time analyzing hundreds of potentially serious bugs and notifying
> > > the world about them all in an accurate way. Perhaps the solution is
> > > changing the development model or architecture of the kernel such that
> > > there aren't so many bugs with *serious* impact in the first place.
> > >
> > > Ooops... did I say that out loud?
> >
> > There's nothing wrong with that, and we have made many changes in the
> > kernel to help mitigate problems before they occur.
> >
> > If you know of any other ways that we can do this, please let us know.
>
> - W^X
I thought we tried this, and had to revert it due to problems it caused
with some dyanmic code generators. Or am I totally mistaken here?
> - not letting kernel dereference userspace pointers (and PMAP is not
> available everywhere, unfortunately)
What do you mean by this?
thanks,
greg k-h
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