From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>
To: gcc Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SECURITY.txt: Drop "exploitable" in reference to hardening issues
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 10:12:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc290b07-3ad2-4ba5-aa6f-32b7c4390828@gotplt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <610f86be-79bb-451f-a9c1-6fcbdc78a2c9@gotplt.org>
On 2023-12-18 09:35, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> The "exploitable vulnerability" may lead to a misunderstanding that
> missed hardening issues are considered vulnerabilities, just that
> they're not exploitable. This is not true, since while hardening bugs
> may be security-relevant, the absence of hardening does not make a
> program any more vulnerable to exploits than without.
>
> Drop the "exploitable" word to make it clear that missed hardening is
> not considered a vulnerability.
Ping, may I commit this if there are no objections?
Thanks,
Sid
>
> diff --git a/SECURITY.txt b/SECURITY.txt
> index b3e2bbfda90..126603d4c22 100644
> --- a/SECURITY.txt
> +++ b/SECURITY.txt
> @@ -155,10 +155,10 @@ Security features implemented in GCC
> GCC implements a number of security features that reduce the impact
> of security issues in applications, such as -fstack-protector,
> -fstack-clash-protection, _FORTIFY_SOURCE and so on. A failure of
> - these features to function perfectly in all situations is not an
> - exploitable vulnerability in itself since it does not affect the
> - correctness of programs. Further, they're dependent on heuristics
> - and may not always have full coverage for protection.
> + these features to function perfectly in all situations is not a
> + vulnerability in itself since it does not affect the correctness of
> + programs. Further, they're dependent on heuristics and may not
> + always have full coverage for protection.
>
> Similarly, GCC may transform code in a way that the correctness of
> the expressed algorithm is preserved, but supplementary properties
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-09 15:12 UTC|newest]
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2023-12-18 14:35 Siddhesh Poyarekar
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2024-01-09 15:32 ` Richard Biener
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