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nixos/hardened profile: disable legacy virtual syscalls
This eliminates a theoretical risk of ASLR bypass due to the fixed address
mapping used by the legacy vsyscall mechanism.  Modern glibc use vdso(7)
instead so there is no loss of functionality, but some programs may fail
to run in this configuration.  Programs that fail to run because vsyscall
has been disabled will be logged to dmesg.

For background on virtual syscalls see https://lwn.net/Articles/446528/

Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/25289
2017-04-29 17:27:11 +02:00
.github CONTRIBUTING.md: improve commit message guidelines 2017-02-06 22:26:32 +02:00
doc nixpkgs manual: Remove obsolete warning (#21117) 2017-04-23 22:40:35 +02:00
lib lib platform parsing: Fix windows 2017-04-27 14:30:42 -04:00
maintainers/scripts Fix tarball evaluation 2017-04-11 13:45:29 +03:00
nixos nixos/hardened profile: disable legacy virtual syscalls 2017-04-29 17:27:11 +02:00
pkgs gimpPlugins.resynthesizer2: fix build 2017-04-29 16:51:25 +02:00
.editorconfig Do not trim trailing whitespace in patch files 2017-01-12 23:44:26 +01:00
.gitignore kde5: consolidate packages into desktops/kde-5 2016-03-01 10:36:00 -06:00
.mention-bot Remove bbenoist from maintainers 2017-03-23 03:03:04 +01:00
.travis.yml Fix a missed sudo: true line 2017-03-24 16:38:42 +00:00
.version version: it's 17.09 not 17.10 2017-02-27 20:46:35 +01:00
COPYING Time passing by 2017-01-01 21:35:52 +01:00
default.nix default.nix: Provide correct instructions how to upgrade Nix 2017-03-18 21:04:07 +02:00
README.md docs: 16.09 -> 17.03 2017-03-30 17:36:44 +02:00

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