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SubjectRe: thoughts on kernel security issues
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:54:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
> >
> > Most of the local DoS's I'm aware of are memory management -related,
> > i.e. user- triggerable proliferation of pinned kernel data structures.
>
> Well. A heck of a lot of the DoS opportunities we've historically seen
> involved memory leaks, deadlocks or making the kernel go oops or BUG with
> locks held or with kernel memory allocated.

I think we can probably exclude root-only local DoS from the full
embargo treatment for starters. The recent /dev/random sysctl one was
in that category.

I can imagine some local DoS bugs that are worth keeping a lid on for
a bit. Classic F00F bug may have been a good example. But hole in an
arbitrary driver may not.

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