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Linux ASLR Improper Randomness

Linux ASLR Improper Randomness
Posted Apr 22, 2015
Authored by Hector Marco

A bug in Linux ASLR implementation has been found. The issue is that the mmap base address for processes is not properly randomized on some architectures due to an improper bit-mask manipulation. Affected systems have reduced the mmap area entropy of the processes by half.

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systems | linux
SHA-256 | 5561c263f5ccd156d5f5f50185acc7545668c0275b3b60446b6c52dff9c6ea14

Linux ASLR Improper Randomness

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A bug in Linux ASLR implementation has been found. The issue is that the mmap 
base address for processes is not properly randomized on some architectures due
to an improper bit-mask manipulation. Affected systems have reduced the mmap
area entropy of the processes by half.

The number of possible locations are reduced by 50%, which for example will
reduce the cost of brute force attacks.

PowerPC, Sparc64 and ARM have 18 bits of entropy. Non-vulnerable systems have
262144 (2^18) different places to locate the mmap area. On vulnerable systems,
this value is reduced to 131072 (2^17).


Advisory details at:
http://hmarco.org/bugs/linux-ASLR-reducing-mmap-by-half.html


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Hector Marco-Gisbert @ http://hmarco.org/
Cyber Security Researcher @ http://cybersecurity.upv.es
Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)


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