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| From: | pageexec@××××××××.hu | ||
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| To: | gentoo-hardened@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-hardened] New Pax feature in 2.6.26 regarding ref. counter overflows | ||
| Date: | Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:02:39 | ||
| Message-Id: | 4991DD01.4094.79AB25E@pageexec.freemail.hu | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-hardened] New Pax feature in 2.6.26 regarding ref. counter overflows by basile |
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| 1 | On 10 Feb 2009 at 13:17, basile wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Hi everyone, |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > I noticed a new option in configuring PaX in the kernel with version |
| 6 | > 2.6.26. It says: |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > Prevent various kernel object reference counter overflows |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | > The description says that it "prevents overflowing various (but not all) |
| 11 | > kinds of object reference counters." I'm not familiar with this exploit |
| 12 | > technique. Does anyone know of any proof of concept code? |
| 13 | |
| 14 | http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107608375207601&w=2 |