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| From | Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net> |
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| Newsgroups | gnu.hurd.help |
| Subject | Re: Combining Hurd and Qubes OS for security reasons? Possible? |
| Date | 2015-12-22 16:59 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.388.1450799984.843.help-hurd@gnu.org> (permalink) |
| References | <CAB=Lj3T9dABDCnfiPFmui45WdZSVvpGs6rMX=PBVR6O94Es-Ug@mail.gmail.com> <20151219222843.GQ4287@var.home> |
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:28:43PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > It will most probably be resistent to windows- and linux-oriented > rootkits, since the implementation is different. If there are flaws in > the ACPI implementation of GNU Mach, there are probably ways to rootkit > it. GNU Mach however currently uses ACPI only for shutting the system > down, so the exposure is low. We'd however need it to eventually work > with multicore processors. The only part of ACPI really needed for SMP is the table that replaces the MP Spec. See X15 [1] for an example. I highly doubt it would lead to code execution. Those blobs mostly come from non architectural devices. -- Richard Braun [1] http://git.sceen.net/rbraun/x15.git/blob/HEAD:/arch/x86/machine/acpimp.c
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