Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: propolice support for linux | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:07:22 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 14:45 +0059, Han Boetes wrote:
> And since most of the security-flaws in linux are buffer-overflows > I would like to request that a patch based on this one is applied > to the kernel so people can use this extension by default. >
I'm sorry but I disagree with this. Most of the security flaws in the kernel are NOT buffer overflows. Almost none are! (and that is because in the linux kernel you are very much stack constrained and can't put large-ish buffers on the stack).
Userland.. that's a different matter. Propolice is one of the options there, there are others too. But for the kernel, buffer overflows are really rare (esp ones that propolice and other tools can catch).
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