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 what it was. And I suppose I should have said, more so than showing privileged info to ordinary *users*, that it could be handing such data to any malicious or compromised programs. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
