Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.26-18
Severity: important
Tags: security
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:10:21PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I wonder if it makes sense to set vm.mmap_min_addr to 4096 (instead of
> 0) for lenny. It seems to me that unstable already made this switch,
> and given the apparently neverending sequence of kernel NULL
> dereferences, this might be quite helpful.
The value of 4096 should be safe. We disabled it again, because the
proposed value of 64k just breaks arm. But this needs to be properly
checked. I'm opening a bug to handle this.
Bastian
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