On 03/08/2016 10:48 AM, James Morris wrote:
On 03/08/2016 06:54 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
This makes sense, but I still think the design is poor. If the hacker
gets code execution, then they can trivially brute force the ADI bits.
ADI in this scenario is intended to prevent the attacker from gaining
code execution in the first place.
Here's some more background from Enrico Perla (who literally wrote the
book on kernel exploitation):
https://blogs.oracle.com/enrico/entry/hardening_allocators_with_adi
Probably the most significant advantage from a security point of view is
the ability to eliminate an entire class of vulnerability: adjacent heap
overflows, as discussed above, where, for example, adjacent heap objects
are tagged differently. Classic linear buffer overflows can be eliminated.
As Kees Cook outlined at the 2015 kernel summit, it's best to mitigate
classes of vulnerabilities rather than patch each instance:
https://outflux.net/slides/2011/defcon/kernel-exploitation.pdf
The Linux ADI implementation is currently very rudimentary, and we
definitely welcome continued feedback from the community and ideas as it
evolves.
- James
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