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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:31:13 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-Request: AMD Bulldozer Linux ASLR weakness: Reducing entropy by 87.5%.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 01:11:41PM +0100, Hector Marco wrote:
> A bug in Linux ASLR implementation which affects some AMD processors has
> been found. The issue affects to all Linux process even if they are not
> using shared libraries (statically compiled). Grsecurity/PaX is also
> affected.
spender's criticism, off Twitter:
<grsecurity> This new ASLR "weakness" with big 87.5% claims is a comedy of errors
<grsecurity> doesn't get the entropy count right for 32-bit in the email, copy+pasted the wrong entropy counts for grsec/PaX (it's 16, not 8)
<grsecurity> Further, the "fix" does absolutely nothing for local attackers and likely nothing for remote attackers either
<grsecurity> One leak of *any* library address from *any* service during the boot lifetime gives away the values
<grsecurity> And on vanilla kernels which still have no bruteforce protection whatsoever, this is less than a non-issue, & not worth dignifying in grsec
Alexander
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