Kees on Linux 4.14 security enhancements

Kees Cook has a new blog post, talking about new security features in Linux kernel 4.14.

vmapped kernel stack on arm64
set_fs() balance checking
SLUB freelist hardening
setuid-exec stack limitation
randstruct automatic struct selection
structleak passed-by-reference variable initialization
improved boot entropy
eBPF JIT for 32-bit ARM
seccomp improvements

security things in Linux v4.14

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