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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:32:04 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v9 2/7] x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel
stack at the end of syscalls
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:56 PM, Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com> wrote:
> By the way, during my work on STACKLEAK, I've found one case when we get to the
> userspace directly from the thread stack. Please see sysret32_from_system_call
> in entry_64_compat.S. I checked that.
>
> IMO it seems odd, can the adversary use that to bypass PTI?
If it was missing the page table swap, shouldn't this mean that the
missing NX bit would immediately crash userspace?
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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