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grsecurity® is ceasing public availability of their all patches
grsecurity® is a set of patches for Linux kernel. Purpose of grsecurity® is to harden system security.
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Where does that leave linux kernel security?
Can anyone describe the overall state of linux kernel security anno domini 2017? |
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I'm not expert, but thanks to "Kernel Self Protection Project" today overall state of Linux vanilla kernel is better than was in 2014. https://outflux.net/slides/2016/lss/kspp.pdf
On the other hand there is still a lot to do about ROP.
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It is still far from Grsecurity state-of-art mitigations, but it is better and it is slowly, constantly being improved.
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I did not state that they had achieved nothing or question their achievments.
http://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Ke...ection_Project Read the mission statement and in particular: Quote:
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