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Re: [Security] [oss-security] Re: /proc infoleaks
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds () linux-foundation org>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:54:58 -0700
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm () linux-foundation org> wrote:
We're not going to change the kernel defaults, end of story - that would break far too much stuff.
Hmm. I think the /proc/kallsyms one really is just plain broken. That should not be world-readable, there's no reason for normal users reading it. But I don't see why slabinfo etc should care. Linus
Current thread:
- Re: [Security] /proc infoleaks, (continued)
- Re: [Security] /proc infoleaks Andrew Morton (Sep 07)
- Re: [Security] /proc infoleaks Sebastian Krahmer (Sep 07)
- Re: Re: [Security] /proc infoleaks Marcus Meissner (Sep 07)
- Re: [Security] [oss-security] Re: /proc infoleaks Willy Tarreau (Sep 13)
- Re: [Security] /proc infoleaks Sebastian Krahmer (Sep 07)
- Re: Re: [Security] /proc infoleaks Jon Oberheide (Sep 07)
- Re: Re: [Security] /proc infoleaks Andrew Morton (Sep 07)
- Re: [Security] [oss-security] Re: /proc infoleaks Andrew Morton (Sep 07)
- Re: [Security] [oss-security] Re: /proc infoleaks Brad Spengler (Sep 07)
- Re: Re: [Security] [oss-security] Re: /proc infoleaks Sebastian Krahmer (Sep 07)
- Re: Re: [Security] [oss-security] Re: /proc infoleaks Brad Spengler (Sep 08)
- Re: [Security] /proc infoleaks Andrew Morton (Sep 07)
- Re: [Security] [oss-security] Re: /proc infoleaks Linus Torvalds (Sep 07)