Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: security patch | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:32:50 -0400 |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:24:48 MDT, Zan Lynx said:
> An interesting thing that I don't think has been done before is to > create a map linking stack call chains to syscalls. If the call stack > doesn't match then it isn't a valid call.
I suspect longjmp() and friends would play havoc on this, and vice versa, as well as those syscalls that are legal from inside signal handlers, and a few other cases.
What validity check were you planning to make on the stack call chain? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |