From: Fruhwirth Clemens <clemens-dated-1063628701.d72f@endorphin.org>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nasm over gas?
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:25:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030905122501.GA3250@leto2.endorphin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309051225.h85CPOYr000323@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:25:24PM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
> > > Are there any buffer overflows or other security holes?
> > > How can you be sure about it?
> >
> > How can you be sure? Mathematical program verification applies quite badly
> > to assembler.
>
> The point is, if somebody does find a bug they will want to
> re-assemble with Gas after they've fixed it.
If you referring to my precompiled masm binaries, yes, if one wants to
change the source, getting masm is not nice.
But if the source is writting in nasm, nasm (LGPL) can be installed
easily..
However, the kernel folks seem to dislike to depend on an additional tool.
Actually that's the answer to my original question. Now I just have to
ponder if I favour the preferences of the kernel over the prefs of user space
programs. There are lots of user space crypto implementations, which are
potential candidates.. and for theses apps an additional dependency on nasm
is no problem.
Regards, Clemens
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2003-09-05 12:25 John Bradford
2003-09-05 12:25 ` Fruhwirth Clemens [this message]
2003-09-06 22:08 ` Herbert Poetzl
2003-09-07 20:40 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-05 13:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
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2003-09-08 20:08 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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2003-09-08 12:03 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-08 13:53 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-08 16:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 16:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 16:45 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-08 16:58 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 17:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
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2003-09-05 13:57 John Bradford
2003-09-05 15:39 ` Mehmet Ceyran
2003-09-06 20:24 ` David B. Stevens
2003-09-05 12:21 John Bradford
2003-09-04 10:42 Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-04 12:32 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-09-04 13:44 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-04 14:05 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 14:21 ` Sean Neakums
2003-09-04 14:33 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 15:09 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-04 14:55 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-05 21:16 ` George Anzinger
2003-09-04 14:57 ` Michael Frank
2003-09-04 15:43 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-04 22:28 ` insecure
2003-09-05 12:59 ` Michael Frank
2003-09-05 17:28 ` insecure
2003-09-05 17:45 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-06 17:18 ` insecure
2003-09-07 18:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-07 19:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-09 21:37 ` insecure
2003-09-09 21:34 ` insecure
2003-09-11 11:07 ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-12 15:26 ` insecure
2003-09-12 17:27 ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-12 22:17 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-13 19:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 19:51 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-11 14:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-11 17:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-09 20:56 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-05 13:27 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-09-05 23:51 ` Aaron Lehmann
2003-09-06 1:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-04 14:56 ` Yann Droneaud
2003-09-05 11:42 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-05 12:04 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2003-09-05 12:37 ` Jörn Engel
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