kernel-hardening - segoon's status report

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:53:58 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: segoon's status report - #5 of 15

Accomplishments:

  * Reworked and sent procfs patch to LKML.
  * Discussed an RLIMIT_NPROC check inside of setuid() and execve(),
    started a discussion on LKML.
  * Discussed a log spoofing via user supplied string in printk().

Priorities:

  * More actively communicate with upstream.
  * Implement patches for orphaned shmem segments destroy, vm86
    restrictions.
  * Overview PaX features, determine what parts of it are acceptable for
    upstream.

-- 
Vasiliy

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