On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 12:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 08:42:39 -0700
> stan wrote:
> 
> > My
> > assumption was that this was adding the strong stack protection to the
> > kernel side of things.
> 
> That seems like it might be impossible without architecture changes
> in the chips to allow bounds checking the stack pointer in hardware
> (which certainly wouldn't fix any existing systems :-).
> 
> > As the
> > exploit report said, enabling strong stack protection in the compiler
> > for affected libraries would stop this exploit, but would be
> > expensive.  I assume that means it slows execution.
> 
> So maybe the proper solution is to static link all the setuid
> binaries, and not drag everything else on the system down

That would mean having a separate library for setuid programs, which
would have to be maintained. Better would be to test for setuid-ness
when the library is called, but I admit I'm just guessing here.

poc
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