Re: Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Jan 07 2018 - 09:15:04 EST
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 08:13:33AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> I'm not fond of running the mitigations, but given that a few sysops can
> connect to the machine to collect stats or counters, I think it would be
> better to ensure these people can't happily play with the exploits to
> dump stuff they shouldn't have access to.
So if someone exploits the "trusted" process, and then dumps all memory,
you have practically lost.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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