Re: Setting vm.mmap_min_addr for lenny?

2009-10-21 Thread dann frazier
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

Re: Setting vm.mmap_min_addr for lenny?

2009-10-21 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2009-10-21, dann frazier da...@dannf.org wrote: I was thinking that in the pending DSA[1] we could warn users that this default will change in the next point release, and provide instructions for making a local configuration change now. Maybe link to a wiki page w/ instructions, so that we

Setting vm.mmap_min_addr for lenny?

2009-08-14 Thread Florian Weimer
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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Setting vm.mmap_min_addr for lenny?

2009-08-14 Thread Bastian Blank
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