[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:30:39 +0200
From: yersinia <yersinia.spiros@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>, Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>,
dailydave <dailydave@...ts.immunitysec.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [Dailydave] Linux
2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Todd Sabin<tsabin@...online.net> wrote:
> spender@...ecurity.net (Brad Spengler) writes:
>
>> (Really there should have been a CVE for the lack of
>> -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks instead of pretending the only problem
>> was /dev/net/tun....
>
> Just as a side note, it seems like gcc is missing an option, to me.
> Okay, it can figure out that some NULL pointer checks seem to be
> useless, and either optimize them away or leave them in. What about
> issuing a warning?
>
> Where's -Wuseless-null-pointer-check?
>
Coverity opinion on this specific issue
http://blog.coverity.com/posts/general/would-you-like-to-know-about-0day-defects-months-in-advance
Regards
>
> Todd
>
> --
> Todd Sabin <tsabin@...online.net>
>
Powered by blists - more mailing lists
Please check out the
Open Source Software Security Wiki, which is counterpart to this
mailing list.
Confused about mailing lists and their use?
Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia
and check out these
guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.
