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Re: Intel CET Support?



On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 22:44 +0200, Felix Potthast wrote:

> i just stumbled upon the fact that debian doesn't yet make use of the
> Intel CET security feature, while many other distributions
> (Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Arch Linux) do.

Allegedly Intel CET provides weak protection, although perhaps it
improved since the 2016 analysis by grsecurity folks:

https://grsecurity.net/effectiveness_of_intel_cet_against_code_reuse_attacks

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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