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SubjectRe: [PATCH] VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:06:55AM -0500, Eric Paris wrote:
> > Given a specifically crafted binary do_brk() can be used to get low
> > pages available in userspace virtually memory and can thus be used to
> > circumvent the mmap_min_addr low memory protection. Add security checks
> > in do_brk().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
>
> ACK

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6.git#for-akpm

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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>


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