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Old 27th April 2017
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Default 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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This change is effective today, April 26th 2017. Public test patches have been removed from the download area. 4.9 was specifically chosen as the last public release as being the latest upstream LTS kernel will help ease the community transition.
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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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KSPP is an external project led by a google developer. Their goals are to get the kind of patching from grsecurity/PAX kernel hardening "in tree", this has not yet been achieved.
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Their goals are to get the kind of patching from grsecurity/PAX kernel hardening "in tree", this has not yet been achieved.
This is very oversimplified. Over last 2 years KSPP have mainlined several patches into Linux vanilla kernel. Some were from PAX, some not. Some mitigations are not enabled by default config and it is up to Gnu/Linux distros to enable them.
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

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These kinds of protections have existed for years in the PaX and grsecurity patches, and in piles of academic papers. For various social, cultural, and technical reasons, they have not made their way into the upstream kernel, and this project seeks to change that. Our focus is on kernel self-protection, rather than kernel-supported userspace protections. The goal is to eliminate classes of bugs and eliminate methods of exploitation.
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Arch & Alpine now both have linux-hardened kernel packages that incorporate all of the KSPP patches.

It's better than the stock kernel but a pale shadow of the grsec modifications.
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Arch & Alpine now both have linux-hardened kernel packages that incorporate all of the KSPP patches.

It's better than the stock kernel but a pale shadow of the grsec modifications.
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Arch no longer offers a substantially hardened kernel package now that the PaX and grsecurity patches are no longer publicly available. The linux-hardened package offers a more security-focused set of configuration options but is not currently comparable to even a tiny subset of what was available before. It primarily exists as a placeholder which will pull in patches from a new public kernel hardening patch set in the early planning phases. See the article on the Gentoo wiki for the current loose plans for a new out-of-tree hardening patch set done in collaboration with upstream work.
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