From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Scott Bauer <sbauer@eng.utah.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, x86@kernel.org,
wmealing@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, luto@amacapital.net,
Abhiram Balasubramanian <abhiram@cs.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] SROP mitigation: Add sysctl to disable SROP protection.
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 21:00:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160308210013.15ee166d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457470075-4586-3-git-send-email-sbauer@eng.utah.edu>
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 13:47:55 -0700
Scott Bauer <sbauer@eng.utah.edu> wrote:
> This patch adds a sysctl argument to disable SROP protection.
Shouldn't it be a sysctl to enable it irrevocably, otherwise if I have DAC
capability I can turn off SROP and attack something to get to higher
capability levels ?
(The way almost all distros are set up its kind of academic but for a
properly secured system it might matter).
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-08 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-08 20:47 [PATCH v3 1/3] SROP Mitigation: Architecture independent code for signal cookies Scott Bauer
2016-03-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] x86: SROP mitigation: implement " Scott Bauer
2016-03-08 21:03 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-03-08 21:38 ` Scotty Bauer
2016-03-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] SROP mitigation: Add sysctl to disable SROP protection Scott Bauer
2016-03-08 21:00 ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2016-03-10 6:36 ` [kernel-hardening] " Kees Cook
2016-03-10 6:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-08 20:58 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] SROP Mitigation: Architecture independent code for signal cookies Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-08 21:49 ` Scotty Bauer
2016-03-08 21:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-08 22:06 ` Scotty Bauer
2016-03-09 22:02 ` Scotty Bauer
2016-03-08 21:04 ` kbuild test robot
2016-03-09 8:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-09 22:07 ` Scotty Bauer
2016-03-09 22:22 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-03-10 9:43 ` Ingo Molnar
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