Re: mprotect abuse in slim

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Jan 09 2007 - 14:29:14 EST


On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:38:25 EST, Mimi Zohar said:

> revoked. Based on previous comments on lkml, we understand
> that this is not really possible in general, so SLIM only
> attempts to revoke access in certain simple cases.

Which, unfortunately, creates incredibly brittle code when some attacker
reads the SLIM source code and finds a way to force the non-simple case
you ignore.

This is an area where you really need to do it *right*, or not at all.

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