Re: General flags to turn things off (getrandom, pid lookup, etc)

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Jul 25 2014 - 19:44:23 EST


On 07/25/2014 11:30 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> - 32-bit GDT code segments [huge attack surface]
> - 64-bit GDT code segments [probably pointless]

I presume you mean s/GDT/LDT/.

We already don't allow 64-bit LDT code segments. Also, it is unclear to
me how 32-bit LDT segments have a huge attack surface, given that there
will realistically always be a 32-bit *GDT* segment present.

-hpa


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