Re: Technical repercussions of grsecurity removal

Daniel Cegiełka <[email protected]> Tue, 2 May 2017 10:28:17 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.hardened
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/Hardened_Kernel_Project

It closes the topic of our discussion.

worth reading:

http://openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2017/05/01/5

http://openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2017/05/02/4

this means:

* KSPP means that keeping PaX for >4.9 will be difficult and painful,
as I pointed out previously
* NSA SELinux instead PAX MPROTECT?


alternatives: RSBAC

* slow, but actively developed:
http://git.rsbac.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-4.9.y.git;a=summary

* produkction ready

* lots of options similar to what is in grsecurity (eg. restricted
chroot in grsec and jail in rsbac):

http://git.rsbac.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-4.9.y.git;a=blob;f=rsbac/Kconfig;h=4a6ae294d41365a5c1757503575074c89ceebb11;hb=HEAD