On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> wrote:
On Thursday 09 July 2009 10:45:55 am devzero2000 wrote:
> There are also other two big problem, imho, now, with prelink support:
>
> 1 - it render impossibile to do a centralizzated integrity checker (with as
> example rfc.sf.net ): very very bad

The aide program in rawhide is prelink friendly. So there are integrity
checkers that can be used.

As for security, prelink stirring around address space randomization is good
for security. For example, this hack needed prelink not to have run to get the
exploit reliable:

http://invisiblethingslab.com/pub/xenfb-adventures-10.pdf

There are more examples like this.
 
 
i know this ref. Tell me something other. I follow only 15 mailing list on these subjects.
Anyway if prelink is a good thing for ASLR IT MUST BE DOCUMENTATED BETTER.
I am sure anyone agreed on this.
 
regards

-Steve