Openwall Releases 'Linux Kernel Runtime Guard' 0.9.0

Long-time Slashdot reader xiando shares news from LinuxReviews:

Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) is a security module for the Linux kernel developed by Openwall. The latest release adds compatibility with Linux kernels up to soon to be released 5.12, support for building LKRG into kernel images, support for old 32-bit x86 machines and more...

The Linux Kernel Runtime Guard is an out-of-tree kernel module you can install as a kernel module, or, with the 0.9.0 release, build into your Linux kernel. It does run-time integrity checks to detect security vulnerability exploits against the Linux kernel.

An Openwall developer also notes in the announcement that 'During LKRG development and testing I've found 7 Linux kernel bugs, 4 of them have CVE numbers.'

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