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Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 12:36:00 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@...il.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>, Michael Leibowitz <michael.leibowitz@...el.com>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH 01/18] gcc-plugins: Add the
randstruct plugin
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Loganaden Velvindron
<loganaden@...il.com> wrote:
> I often see drivers for android phones have all kinds of security
> issues. Does this help to make it harder to exploit vulnerabilities
> and RCEs in wifi drivers for example ?
Depends on the flaw (some of the recent wifi attacks have been against
the wifi firmware itself). As documented in the changelog:
... [randstruct is a] probabilistic defense against attacks that need
to know the layout of structures within the kernel ...
And overwriting function pointers in structures is a common way to
perform attacks, which this plugin would complicate. See "executing
code" in: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/05/exploiting-linux-kernel-via-packet.html
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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