Tim:
>> Supposedly, it could show an ordinary user something they shouldn't
>> know, hence the increased security, now.
Barry:
> As I understand the risk it is the presences of addresses in dmesg
> output of kernel internals that are required for attacking the
> kernel.
>
I couldn't remember wha
On 17/3/25 17:42, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 2025-03-16 15:23, Stephen Morris wrote:
Is the nvidia API mismatch because the Xorg nvidia drivers were
updated with the update I did and I haven't rebooted yet?
[ 3055.581655] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version
570.124.04, but
Tim:
> > Supposedly, it could show an ordinary user something they shouldn't
> > know, hence the increased security, now.
Stephen Morris:
> It depends on what environment you are in, if you are in an
> organisational environment then it is possible that it may show
> something that is sensitive
> On 18 Mar 2025, at 07:29, Tim via users wrote:
>
> Supposedly, it could show an ordinary user something they shouldn't
> know, hence the increased security, now.
As I understand the risk it is the presences of addresses in dmesg output of
kernel internals that are required for attacking the
On 18/3/25 18:28, Tim via users wrote:
On Tue, 2025-03-18 at 08:43 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
Thanks Todd, it's been quite a while since I've used DMESG, but I don't
remember ever having to use sudo with it, nor do I remember ever seeing
the message about kernel buffer access being denied, but
On Tue, 2025-03-18 at 08:43 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Thanks Todd, it's been quite a while since I've used DMESG, but I don't
> remember ever having to use sudo with it, nor do I remember ever seeing
> the message about kernel buffer access being denied, but it just means I
> will now have
On 17/3/25 09:38, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Stephen Morris wrote:
Just a query first off, why do I need to run dmesg under sudo for it to
produce its output?
In Fedora 39 (or there about), the CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT kernel
config was changed. The commit in the Fedora kernel source tre
On 2025-03-16 15:23, Stephen Morris wrote:
Is the nvidia API mismatch because the Xorg nvidia drivers were
updated with the update I did and I haven't rebooted yet?
[ 3055.581655] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version
570.124.04, but
NVRM: this kernel module has t
Stephen Morris wrote:
> Just a query first off, why do I need to run dmesg under sudo for it to
> produce its output?
In Fedora 39 (or there about), the CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT kernel
config was changed. The commit in the Fedora kernel source tree
provides some useful details¹:
Tu
