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Re: Bug#544539: RFP: Linux Unified Kernel



1 сентября 2009 19:11:06 Leo "costela" Antunes писали:
> Ivan Borzenkov wrote:
> >> If you support Windows drivers, you will support kernel-mode Windows
> >> trojans as well.
> >
> > trojans also need root access to system - in windows it's standart, in
> > linux not
>
> I'm not familiar with LUK, but by the description it seems you might be
> missing the point: it doesn't matter if the _user_ has root access per
> default or not, if the driver is running in kernel-mode - which seems to
> be the case for LUK - you're opening up to the same security problems.
>
> Unless you have something like ndiswrapper, which has its own set of
> problems and limitations.
>
> Cheers
As I understood from the description on the site they use the kernel 
NDISWrapper for drivers, ie security, such as.

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