Re: CVS commit: src/sys/miscfs/procfs

[David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:06:38PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > Modified Files:
 >      src/sys/miscfs/procfs: procfs_vnops.c
 > 
 > Log Message:
 > From Aleksey Cheusov: Don't make it easy for compromised systems to bypass
 > ASLR protections by providing the mapping addresses of programs to everyone.

...as opposed to, say, running /usr/bin/pmap?

(I've long thought that should be restricted to root, or at least only
to one's own non-setugid processes.)

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David A. Holland
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