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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: fche@redhat.com
Cc: joseph@codesourcery.com, drow@false.org,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,         pedro@codesourcery.com,
	uweigand@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Longjmp vs LD_POINTER_GUARD revisited
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911161556.nAGFuO6g029976@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y0mbpj2wlhu.fsf@fche.csb>

> From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:13:49 -0500
> 
> Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> >> [...]
> > Isn't it a bit ridiculous that glibc, which is a GNU project, makes
> > the life of GDB, another GNU project, so difficult?
> 
> Well, it's nothing personal.  If glibc made it trivial decrypt this
> stuff on demand, it'd be just as easy for an attacker.  Maybe this is
> a case for something akin to libthread_db.

That's not quite the point I wanted to make.  I merely wanted to point
out that glibc implemented this security measure (and apparently keeps
changing it) without considering the debugability of processes.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-16 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-15 17:35 Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-11-15 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-15 18:30 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-11-15 22:36   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-11-15 23:06     ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-11-16 14:37       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-11-16 14:55         ` Pedro Alves
2009-11-16 14:56           ` Pedro Alves
2009-11-16 15:05           ` Pedro Alves
2009-11-16 17:50           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-11-15 18:39 ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-11-15 21:52   ` Mark Kettenis
2009-11-15 22:37     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-11-16 15:15     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-11-16 15:40       ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-11-16 15:43         ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-11-16 16:19         ` Mark Kettenis
2009-11-16 15:59       ` Mark Kettenis [this message]

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