Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:08:52 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: "Press, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Press@ca.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
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Subject: Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to alinuxinterfaceforon
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On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:51:07 -0400
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:

> I think Alan and I have both described how greater linux security can
> be gained through this interface compared to glibc or LD_PRELOAD even
> if it isn't perfect security.  

I guess I missed that.

I will fully subscribe to the idea that  "the LD_PRELOAD way assumes you
have a good->bad transition" might not be fully bullet proof (after
all, if your init is compromised you won't have this transition)

but what else is the actual gap?

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