Updated Anti-Trojan Kernel option for OpenBSD & FreeBSD

From: Michael A. Williams (mikeat_private)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 23:49:59 PDT

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    Hi,
    
    For an explanation of what the signed_exec Anti-Trojan kernel option
    does please see:
    
    http://www.trojanproof.org/sigexec.pdf
    
    OpenBSD Updates:
    
    Updates for OpenBSD 3.1 and Current at 29th April 2002 are available
    from:
    
    http://www.trojanproof.org/sigexec-obsd3.1r-0.1a.tgz
    
    These patches have been tested against a snapshot of OpenBSD 3.1 Release
    downloaded April 26 2002 and a CVS update against Current on 29th April
    2002.
    
    The relevant OpenBSD CVS tags are:
     $OpenBSD: GENERIC,v 1.86 2002/03/14 00:42:25 miod Exp $
     $OpenBSD: exec.h,v 1.14 2002/03/14 03:16:12 millert Exp $
     $OpenBSD: exec_script.c,v 1.15 2001/11/06 19:53:20 miod Exp $
     $OpenBSD: kern_exec.c,v 1.66 2002/03/14 17:17:23 mickey Exp $
     $OpenBSD: kern_lkm.c,v 1.37 2002/03/14 01:27:04 millert Exp $
    
    
    FreeBSD Updates:
    
    Updated kernel option signed_exec patches for FreeBSD 5.0 DP1 Developer
    Preview One are available from:
    
    http://www.trojanproof.org/sigexec-fbsd5.0dp1-0.1.tgz
    
    These patches have been tested against 5.0 DP1
    
    The relevant CVS tags are:
    $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.335 2002/02/13 18:47:50 alfred
    Exp $ 
    $FreeBSD: src/sys/conf/options,v 1.304 2002/03/12 04:00:11 jeff Exp $
    $FreeBSD: src/sys/kern/kern_exec.c,v 1.154 2002/02/27 20:57:57 imp Exp $
    $FreeBSD: src/sys/kern/kern_linker.c,v 1.79 2002/03/10 23:12:43 dwmalone
    Exp $
    
    
    Regards,
    -- 
    Michael A. Williams
    Security Software Engineering and InfoSec Manager
    NetXSecure NZ Limited, http://www.nxs.co.nz
    Ph: +64.3.318.2973 Fax: +64.3.318.2975 Mob: +64.21.995.914
    



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