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Re: [Full-disclosure] What the f*** is going on?
- To: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@xxxxxxxxxxx>, full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] What the f*** is going on?
- From: jf <jf@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:34:37 -0500
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:27:29PM -0500, jf wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:20:32PM -0800, Michal Zalewski wrote:
> > >> this is only true for remote attackers hitting network service auth.
> > > Mhmm, and runas, su et al couldn't benefit from this?
> >
> > Not a whole lot. You can likely tell a successful login from a failed
> > one within several miliseconds by watching /proc or so.
>
Erm, slightly misunderstood what you were saying-- although overall statement
still sorta holds. Doing this locally is obviously going to incurr a lot more
side-channel information leakage chances. I'd still prefer to see those
addressed over abandonment of it all together.
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