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Re: Proposal: Disable autoload of compat_xyz modules



Le 10/09/2017 à 13:37, Manuel Bouyer a écrit :
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 01:32:27PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
Le 10/09/2017 à 13:16, Manuel Bouyer a écrit :
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 01:13:14PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
True enough; but in this particular case, leaving compat features enabled just
for the sake of simplicity produces a system that is much more vulnerable than
if it had one level of indirection.

If you know it's vulnerable then fix it, do not spend time trying to
work around it.

Yes, compat_linux/linux32/svr4/svr4_32/ibcs2/etc are probably still vulnerable,

as is the native exec path or compat_netbsd32 ...

yes, but these are critical to the functioning of the system, contrary to the
ones I'm talking about


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