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Re: hardening-check can detect whether kernel is protected or not



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On Wed, 2019-01-02 at 03:08 +0100, Mikhail Morfikov wrote:
> So does the kernel is protected or not? If yes, why hardening-check can't detect it?
> Also how to get "not stripped" instead of "stripped" kernel?

Hi,

the kernel is not a standard ELF binary, so you can't really run hardening-
check on it and expect sound results.

Yes, the kernel has some protection/hardening (see for example the work done
by the Kernel Self Protection Project).

Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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