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Re: Thoughts on Shellshock and beyond
From: Hanno Böck <hanno () hboeck de>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 12:21:19 +0200
Am Tue, 7 Oct 2014 18:11:10 +0800 schrieb Pavel Labushev <pavel.labushev () runbox no>:
What works is recognising and eliminating whole bug _classes_, or deploying exploitation mitigation measures against them.
I am fully with you on that. I advocate CSP and prepared statements where I can and Softbound+CETS (trying to kill all C-memory-errors) looks really interesting. However I won't go as far as claiming that fixing bugs is pointless. Two thoughts on that: * We have to live with what we have now. We can talk that it'd be better to re-write all our operating systems in better languages, but even considering that happens it won't happen any time soon. We have to fix the bugs in the software we use today. * Heartbleed is an out of bounds memory read. Well understood and yes, it should be possible to implement mitigations against these kinds of things. What class of bug is Shellshock? "Weird feature invented in pre-Internet era"? How do you conquer this class of bugs? My point is: Even if we eliminate classes of bugs there will still be security issues that don't fit in your bug class cateogries. -- Hanno Böck http://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: hanno () hboeck de GPG: BBB51E42
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