Re: Protecting against kernel NULL-pointer derefs

2009-09-27 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
On 27 Sep 2009, at 20:04, Brett Glass wrote: As someone who has been frustrated by a disproportionate number of bugs related to null and wild pointer dereferencing, I'd opt for such an option to be incorporated in the next point release. Perhaps, there could be two options: one to generate

Fwd: [capsicum] Capsicum USENIX Security 2010 paper now online

2010-06-02 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
ge: > From: "Robert N. M. Watson" > Date: 2 June 2010 11:25:53 GMT+01:00 > To: cl-capsicum-disc...@lists.cam.ac.uk > Subject: [capsicum] Capsicum USENIX Security 2010 paper now online > > The final version of the USENIX Security 2010 paper on Capsicum is now up o

Re: OpenBSM: does somebody work on it?

2011-07-17 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
On 17 Jul 2011, at 12:09, Patrick Proniewski wrote: > On 17 juil. 2011, at 12:14, Robert Watson wrote: > >> Just catching up on back e-mail, and bumped into this thread. Did you file >> PRs for these bugs? As Stacey mentions, the trustedbsd-audit mailing list >> is where most discussion of O

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-16:15.sysarch [REVISED]

2016-10-25 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
Hi Pawel: In general, my strong recommendation is against issuing advisories for local denial-of-service attacks, in part because it suggests we consider it a security guarantee of the system that those problems can be reliably prevented. At least in current operating-system designs, preventing