Re: [OT] linker holes (was: SMP)

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From: Joachim Schipper

Subject: Re: [OT] linker holes (was: SMP)

Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 3:50 am

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 07:18:33PM -0500, nixlists wrote:
quoted text> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote:
> >> We have all this multicore hardware that doesn't get taken
> >> advantage of by [OpenBSD], (...) but the security and simplicity
> >> trade-offs may be worth it anyway (...)
> >
> > Or put it another way.
> >
> > I couldn't help but smile when someone told me their 16-way SMP box
> > had been holed by a bug in their ld.so.
> 
> Linux?

There was a recent FreeBSD vulnerability along those lines, see
http://www.mail-archive.com/full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk/msg38274.html.

		Joachim

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SMP, Donald Allen, (Wed Dec 9, 9:38 am)

Re: SMP, Marco Peereboom, (Wed Dec 9, 9:50 am)

Re: SMP, Daniel Gracia Garallar, (Wed Dec 9, 10:03 am)

Re: SMP, andres, (Wed Dec 9, 10:03 am)

Re: SMP, Donald Allen, (Wed Dec 9, 10:36 am)

Re: SMP, Donald Allen, (Wed Dec 9, 11:03 am)

Re: SMP, Brad Tilley, (Wed Dec 9, 12:50 pm)

Re: SMP, Marco Peereboom, (Wed Dec 9, 1:00 pm)

Re: SMP, Donald Allen, (Wed Dec 9, 1:13 pm)

Re: SMP, Daniel Ouellet, (Wed Dec 9, 2:56 pm)

Re: SMP, Robert, (Wed Dec 9, 2:56 pm)

Re: SMP, Michiel van Baak, (Wed Dec 9, 3:07 pm)

Re: SMP, Brad Tilley, (Wed Dec 9, 4:19 pm)

Re: SMP, Robert, (Wed Dec 9, 4:33 pm)

Re: SMP, nixlists, (Wed Dec 9, 4:42 pm)

Re: SMP , Theo de Raadt, (Wed Dec 9, 4:46 pm)

Re: SMP, Robert, (Wed Dec 9, 5:05 pm)

Re: SMP, nixlists, (Wed Dec 9, 5:18 pm)

Re: SMP, Zafer Daştan, (Thu Dec 10, 12:28 am)

Re: [OT] linker holes (was: SMP), Joachim Schipper, (Thu Dec 10, 3:50 am)

Re: SMP, nixlists, (Thu Dec 10, 2:12 pm)


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