Re: Providing access to the ELF Auxillary Vector for all binaries

To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
Subject: Re: Providing access to the ELF Auxillary Vector for all binaries
From: Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 21:12:20 -0500

> 
> Further changes could include a careful check of initial system calls
> of typical process traces. One change to adopt from FreeBSD (IIRC) is to
> include the initial seed for arc4random to save that system call etc.

Could you explain these points more carefully?  What is the purpose of these
checks and traces?  Will they show up in .core files?

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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