Installer should ask before disabling mmap_min_addr protection
Bug #482471 reported by
Hugh Perkins
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #475540: wine opens the system to null pointer dereference security bugs (vm.mmap_min_addr).
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| wine (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: wine
I feel that the Installer should ask before disabling mmap_min_addr protection
- I feel that it should state that such disactivation is a potential security risk
- I feel that it should state that such disactivation is only necessary for 16-bit applications and installer to work. 32-bit applications will run just fine without it.
Personally, I would choose to not disactivate it for example (now that I know about it, I've reverted the change manually in /etc/sysctl.
Revision history for this message
| Kees Cook (kees) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in wine (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| visibility: | private → public |
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I would agree -- this needs to be a debconf question that defaults to not disabling mmap_min_addr.