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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2014-02-25 10:28:04 -0800
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2014-07-25 11:47:45 -0700
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parentCAPABILITIES: remove undefined caps from all processes (diff)
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security: introduce kernel_fw_from_file hook
In order to validate the contents of firmware being loaded, there must be a hook to evaluate any loaded firmware that wasn't built into the kernel itself. Without this, there is a risk that a root user could load malicious firmware designed to mount an attack against kernel memory (e.g. via DMA). Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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