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Re: Re: [Dailydave] [oss-security] Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable
From: yersinia <yersinia.spiros () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:30:39 +0200
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Todd Sabin<tsabin () optonline net> wrote:
spender () grsecurity net (Brad Spengler) writes:(Really there should have been a CVE for the lack of -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks instead of pretending the only problem was /dev/net/tun....Just as a side note, it seems like gcc is missing an option, to me. Okay, it can figure out that some NULL pointer checks seem to be useless, and either optimize them away or leave them in. What about issuing a warning? Where's -Wuseless-null-pointer-check?
Coverity opinion on this specific issue http://blog.coverity.com/posts/general/would-you-like-to-know-about-0day-defects-months-in-advance Regards
Todd -- Todd Sabin <tsabin () optonline net>
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- Re: Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable Marcus Meissner (Jul 20)
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- Re: Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable Marcus Meissner (Jul 20)
- Re: Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable Solar Designer (Jul 20)
- Re: Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable Solar Designer (Jul 20)
- Re: Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable Solar Designer (Jul 20)
- Re: Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable Solar Designer (Jul 20)
- Re: Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable Marcus Meissner (Jul 20)
- Re: Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable Julien Tinnes (Jul 20)
- Re: [Dailydave] [oss-security] Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable Todd Sabin (Jul 22)
- Re: Re: [Dailydave] [oss-security] Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable yersinia (Jul 22)