Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ARM ATTEND] catching up on exploitmitigations

From: Aaro Koskinen
Date: Tue Jul 30 2013 - 19:11:33 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 06:14:35PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:05:40PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > - fuzzing (is anyone running trinity or similar on the ARM tree?)
>
> Someone was kind enough to send me an arm chromebook, so I tried this just
> last week (albeit, on the 3.4 kernel it shipped with). The results make
> me think the answer is a resounding 'no'.

Shouldn't you run trinity only under QEMU or similar virtual
environment? Don't know about chromebook, but on some of my ARM boards
a misbehaving kernel could at least in theory brick the board...

A.
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