Article 75G1J killswitch for short-term emergency vulnerability mitigation

killswitch for short-term emergency vulnerability mitigation

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It seems that we are in for an extended period of the disclosure ofvulnerabilities before fixes become available. One possible way of copingwith this flood might be the killswitchproposal from Sasha Levin. In short, killswitch can immediately disableaccess to specific functionality in a running kernel, essentially blastinga vulnerable path (and its associated functionality) out of existence untila fix can be installed. "For most users, the cost of 'this socketfamily stops working for the day' is much smaller than the cost of runninga known vulnerable kernel until the fix land."
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