[grsec] 2.6.13.2-grsec 20050930: High frequency of apps dying

bc bc at default.co.yu
Wed Oct 12 04:16:50 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 13:12 +0200, pageexec at freemail.hu wrote:
> anything that accepts/parses network input is a potential entry
> vector for an attacker, so it makes a lot of sense to run those
> desktop apps as well under a hardened environment (fwiw, i do it
> myself and yet i don't feel like in hell ;-). and as others said
> already, processes that begin to crash under grsec deserve a look
> as you never know if it's a bug in grsec (or PaX) itself or the
> app in question, in either case, someone somewhere made a mistake
> and it's in everyone's interest to find and fix it.
> 
> 

Thanks for clearing me out on this. Though, I would like to see some
docs on subject flags.


=bc




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