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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:10:33 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request -- kernel: execshield: predictable
 ascii armour base address

On 03/20/2012 06:20 PM, Petr Matousek wrote:
> When running a binary with a lot of shared libraries, predictable base
> address is used for one of the loaded libraries.
> 
> This flaw could be used to bypass ASLR.
> 
> References:
> http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2012/03/some-random-observations-on-linux-aslr.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804947

Use CVE-2012-1568.

Eugene

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