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Re:Linux af_packet.c race condition local root exploit by _joel on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @09:27AM (#13114775)
Would this vulnerability have been mitigated with default grsec, ooi?
Re:Linux af_packet.c race condition local root exploit by dmix on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @09:36AM (#13114835)
Not sure about this one but there has been more than enough public vulns that grsec was already protecting against before release to justify using it for the security conscious Linux user.

Archlinux has packages that make it very easy to use.

Re:Linux af_packet.c race condition local root exploit by staticassertion on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @04:43PM (#13118598)
Note that if you can compile the kernel yourself there are benefits to doing so. It's been a while so I forget the details but grsecurity uses some randomization at compile time, and an attacker with access to the public image would be able to get around those defenses. If you own the seed, and delete it after compilation, an attacker will not be able to bypass those defenses.

Naturally you still benefit a ton without those, but the ideal situation involves compiling it.

Re:Linux af_packet.c race condition local root exploit by staticassertion on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @09:44AM (#13114890)
Grsecurity does not allow unprivileged namespaces, so this would only be exploitable by a root user.