On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:14:39PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Kyle, > > From latest Rawhide kernel.rpm: > > * Wed Nov 17 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxx> > - Make vmlinuz/System.map root read-write only by default. You can > just chmod 644 them later if you (unlikely) need them without root. > > This completely breaks libguestfs. We need to be able to read the > kernel image in order to boot it in qemu as a non-root user. > > What's the motivation for this change? > Preventing rootkits from being able to trivially find addresses. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
