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Re: Security Implications of DKMS?



On mar., 2012-03-27 at 14:18 +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote:
> I see that as a myth. Look at it this way: if an attacker already has 
> access to your machine, he/she can install anything he/she wants, 
> including compilers, interpreters, whatever. 

A good way to prevent that is to enforce W^X. There are various kernel
ways to do that (MAC, Grsec trusted execution path), but also at mount
time, it might be interesting to not have rw and exec on the same
filesystem.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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