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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:56:05 +0000
From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To: "'Tobin C. Harding'" <me@...in.cc>, "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com"
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v4] scripts: add leaking_addresses.pl

From: Tobin C. Harding
> Sent: 07 November 2017 10:32
>
> Currently we are leaking addresses from the kernel to user space. This
> script is an attempt to find some of those leakages. Script parses
> `dmesg` output and /proc and /sys files for hex strings that look like
> kernel addresses.
...

Maybe the %p that end up in dmesg (via the kernel message buffer) should
be converted to text in a form that allows the code that reads them to
substitute alternate text for non-root users?

Then the actual addresses will be available to root (who can probably
get most by other means) but not to the casual observer.

	David

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