It was reported [1] that stack address is not properly randomized on some 64 bit architectures due to an integer overflow. The stack entropy of the processes is reduced by four. The possible locations are significantly reduced from around one billion to two hundred millions. The problem seems to affect only to the x86_64 architecture. Proposed patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/811 [1]: http://hmarco.org/bugs/linux-ASLR-integer-overflow.html
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1192520]
Statement: This issue does affect the Linux kernel versions as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future kernel updates in the respective releases may address this issue. This issue does affect the Linux kernel versions as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
kernel-3.18.8-201.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
kernel-3.18.9-100.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Sorry for being picky, but isn't the very existence of the /proc/<pid>/maps virtual files a security issue?
Gday João, In the interest of getting your questions answered correctly (I just came across this by chance) It might be best to lodge it directly against the kernel component of the product you're asking about (Probably RHEL 7 or Fedora 21). Thanks, Wade Mealing Red Hat Product Security
Upstream fix: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4e7c22d447bb6d7e37bfe39ff658486ae78e8d77
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:1139 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1139.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: MRG for RHEL-6 v.2 Via RHSA-2015:1138 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1138.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:1137 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1137.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2015:1221 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1221.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2019:3517 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3517