Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Mar 2016 21:00:13 +0000 | From | One Thousand Gnomes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] SROP mitigation: Add sysctl to disable SROP protection. |
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On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 13:47:55 -0700 Scott Bauer <sbauer@eng.utah.edu> wrote:
> This patch adds a sysctl argument to disable SROP protection.
Shouldn't it be a sysctl to enable it irrevocably, otherwise if I have DAC capability I can turn off SROP and attack something to get to higher capability levels ?
(The way almost all distros are set up its kind of academic but for a properly secured system it might matter).
Alan
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