Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Fork brute force attack mitigation

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 04:30:05PM +0100, John Wood wrote: > > This patch serie is a task of the KSPP [1] and can also be accessed from my > github tree [2] in the "brute_v4" branch. Sorry. The correct branch is "brute_v5". Apologies. John Wood > > [1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/39 > [2

[PATCH v5 0/8] Fork brute force attack mitigation

Attacks against vulnerable userspace applications with the purpose to break ASLR or bypass canaries traditionally use some level of brute force with the help of the fork system call. This is possible since when creating a new process using fork its memory contents are the same as those of the paren