SameKernel (Deterministic Kernel) is software created in ?Mempo project for Debian that allows to build Kernel in Verifiable (reproducible, deterministic) way. The resulting .deb are identical each time, so you can be sure no backdoor/trojan was addedd - because your friends confirm they also are getting same checksum from this sources.

You can very easily download the .deb of our verifiable-build kernel and #install it, -or- (for advanced) #build and then help by testifying checksum of your resulting .deb.

This page describes two connected topics:

Building deterministic kernels for Debian (.deb), on Debian building kernel by default in hardened variant (grsecurity) ready for fast and easy installation on Debian

Current status

Project is ready to use as of 2014-06-03.

The Apt repository for grsecurity version is ready, you can just apt-get install mempo kernels now after following the install instructions to add mempo repository.

Since 2014-05-29 all files and install instructions are placed along with a debian repository here: http://deb.mempo.org/ - this site includes the install instructions. Also accessible as http://deb.mempo.i2p/.

project is considered stable (2014-11) by Mempo team (how ever not officially a part of the Debian distribution)

With any problems, ?Mempo team will help you on irc://irc.oftc.net/#mempo (or chat-webpage(sometimes allows Tor) or see: ?anonymous) please wait up to 48 hours for our reply!

Linux kernel only, testing on amd64 (and i386, others - see #xbuild)

Includes by default grsecurity , but that can be easily removed

Deterministic Kernel - done, you should obtain same .deb each time by following instructions here

Grsecurity Kernel - done, but this versions are not yet fully configured, and aim desktop for now. For full security, #build own kernel and first change configuration to enable all grsecurity options and disable not needed parts of kernel

News: https://github.com/mempo/deterministic-kernel/commits/master and #mempo

DOWNLOAD release

All new released will go to our debian repository:

http://deb.mempo.org/ - files and install instructions

http://deb.mempo.i2p/ - mirror

you can browse files and get the .deb files as usual, also detached .sig signatures are there in ../sign/.

New versions will appear on our github, and on grsecurity.net web page, if we are not updating given package you can rather easily update yourself following instructions on github README.md how to increase grsecurity version, or use the provided there devel-up* script.

*Look for newest versions* on site: http://mempo.org/downloads/ but always check the gpg signature (or #build).

See also #download_old for older versions.

Deepnet

Mempo team maintaining this site also provides secure darknet download of most files. Using Freenet to make it hard to find downloaders, uploaders of these files, and making it close to impossible to censor/delete the files (DDoS, server break-in etc).

After installing Freenet software you could access this alternative download linked from: freesite USK@95n3XqgAcrAT.../ (?) or from freesite USK@jgyPvA.../ (?)

Remember to also check signatures on darknet downloads. While in Freenet mirrors there is no server to be hacked, still the uploader key could be compromised, so better doublecheck with PGP. In if any doubt just #build yourself after checking at least new (our scripts) sources.

Tor onion and i2p bittorrent are also experimented with as additional distribution platform.

Goal

Users should be able to rebuild identical kernel that matches the distributed .deb files, to know that they do not contain a virus added on top of the source code.

Optional Grsecurity

In our SameKernel script, grsecurity is enabled by default;

To disable it, just remove all lines containing the word grsecurity from script's sources.list and then run the #build again. (In ?future we would like to also provide here the .deb for non-grsecurity kernels if this is requested).

To fully use Grsecurity kernel you must follow steps in #install!

(Note to editors: please leave this section/anchor even if this topic would be moved)

Install kernel from SameKernel

Get the .deb files either from download or build.

Read about known bugs

Install them with dpkg -i thefiles.deb

For grsecurity version you must run the setfattr script for grsecurity (and other instructions there - enable user_xattr) or otherwise JIT-using programs like java, python, firefox, icedove etc., will be prohibited from running! ( tip: if you do not have internet or browser is not working already, remember the script to fix firefox is located also in your local copy of SameKernel/deterministic-kernel, search for that filename e.g. in directory apps/.)

if you are interested in security for more kernel-related and other tools see: ?Mempo#install

Progress

The project is production ready and released in deb.mempo.org

Steps of this project:

Step 1 configure kernel build to create identical intermittent files: .o

Step 2 configure kernel build to create identical final files: .ko

Step 3 identical .gz files (docs?)

Step 4 have identical all files and vmlinux including vmlinux .notes

Step 5 have identical .deb files on the same machine

Step 6 have identical .deb files on different machines (this works, provided username kernelbuild and directory /home/kernelbuild/deterministic-kernel/ )

Step 6b fix varying xz header/tail between some machines ( /Test#v0.1.23-rc1_buildA )

Skipped/not needed. Step 7a remove requirement of having same directory

Skipped/not needed. Step 7b remove requirement of having same username

Step 8 test if hostname, and timezone are ignored

Step 9 any other differences between alpha-testers doing the verification

See general instructions for all programs: ReproducibleBuilds .

We created a script that does this deterministic build in a bit more automated way with added:

verification of downloaded sources (check against hardcoded in script list of expected checksums of sources; also check PGP signature with hardcoded public key of kernel developers)

apply security patches for the ?Mempo subproject

grsecurity patch - http://grsecurity.net/

misc patches if needed (e.g. quick fixes regarding security)

This page should be usable for everyone in Debian, and script we're writing will be later easy to run in pure-Debian mode too.

Crossbuild

Depending on your computer and target computer there are options.

Remark: remember that amd64 means both Intel and AMD standard 64 bit CPUs - see amd64.

on amd64 build machine create the package of amd64 kernel (build) - this is the standard and most tested way currently

on amd64 build machine create the package of i386 kernel (crossbuild) - this might be possible soon, using methods as in ?Mempo/mempo-deb#arch but you will have to provide corret .config file. In ?Mempo we will create recommended i386 kernel config(s) that take into account proper grsecurity options. For regular not-hardened debian kernels, you should take the config from your current regular kernel and replace the one provided in SameKernel script.

building on other architectures (e.g on i386 for i386) was not tested but in principle should work, still you would need to provide correct .config (or try using the existing one and computer will probably ask you interactively)

Build

Build from sources easily - get the software and publish (PGP-signed) cheksums confirmation so that other users can trust the binary *.deb we publish - please consider doing: #create_verification.

If you are building something else then on amd64 for amd64 then see #xbuild.

Extra tools that are not-standard-wheezy and are installed globally:

GNU gettext >= 0.18.2 (install them from official debian-wheezy backports)

Extra tools that do not need any non-standard global changes:

User local installation of dpkg pu/reproducible_builds - instructions below

As root from normal repository install faketime (in wheezy) and other common programs

Prepare dependencies for Build

As root :

apt-get install faketime time git build-essential libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev kernel-package md5deep gcc-4.7-plugin-dev g++ make time automake pkg-config flex

Actual and authorized depencies are in README.md

Create user for kernel build

At this moment, to get the same *.deb kernel files on different machines, build must be ran on the same user!

Create unix user kernelbuild.

Get and build dpkg

We are using Lunar's branch of dpkg: pu/reproducible_builds. We need GNU gettext >= 0.18.2, therefore on wheezy please add (skip this step if you're building .deb files on Jessie!!!):

deb http://''YOURMIRROR''.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main

to /etc/apt/sources.list and run:

# aptitude update # aptitude install -t wheezy-backports gettext autopoint

Please use ?Mempo's script: https://github.com/mempo/mempo-deb/tree/master/pack/dpkg that will fetch, build and install reproducible-dpkg locally (no need to upgrade your system wide dpkg) (it will delete our old directory in home without asking)

cd ~ rm -rf mempo-deb/ git clone https://github.com/mempo/mempo-deb cd mempo-deb/pack/dpkg

Verify version of git repository with the command (check if this is ?Mempo/#pgp signed correctly)

LANG=C git tag -v `git describe --tags`

Build and install reproducible-dpkg.

./build-and-install-locally.sh

Run kernel compilation

A Better new version is to use the build scripts. They are part of build-bot which is described below. Clone repository from https://github.com/mempo/mempobot and manually confirm it's GPG signature on git tag and/or review the code of script. Then follow the instructions how to run the built itself (not the entire build-bot) that are in README.txt file there. This should build all variants of kernel (e.g. desk, deskmax etc) and properly copy the resulting deb files into ~/public/ or similar, ready for use of publishing.

Run kernel compilation old

An old, simple method to build just one flavor of the kernel, was following: In home directory run (it will delete our old directory in home without asking)

cd ~ rm -rf deterministic-kernel/ git clone https://github.com/mempo/deterministic-kernel.git cd deterministic-kernel/

Verify version of git repository with the command (check if this is ?Mempo/#pgp signed correctly):

LANG=C git tag -v `git describe --tags`

Build:

bash run.sh

press ENTER to confirm (e.g. the download) and then kernel should build Yon can use the other run script with proper parameter to build other flavor of kernel.

Build bot

Build bot is a program that should automatically watch for new releases of this project, announce them (e.g. to IRC, NNTP) and build them (and announce/upload checksums, signs, files). At time of writing (2014-11-07) the bot is usable but a bit under-documented and hard to install. All needed software should be in: https://github.com/mempo/mempobot/ but also check any forks for newer updates. Please contact us if you would wish to join the building team.

How this works

Following fixes are applied to make the build deterministic:

(TODO update this doc, is that all?)

Set anv options like USER, HOST

Faketime

Replace TIME with given time in kernel sources (maybe not needed since faketime, however it's cleaner solution to the problem)

Overlay fix-md5sums-sort.patch

Overlay fix-remove-debuglink.patch (probably not needed because of pu/reproducible_builds debhelper)

Overlay fix-kpkg-gz.patch (probably not needed because of pu/reproducible_builds dpkg)

Overlay fix-deterministic-buildinfo.patch

build-id Change to build-id=none for vmlinux to fix it quickly Check exact version of libc6, gcc, and other tools that embed their name in elf binaries in headers package Turn back on buildid for vmlinux, if the exact versions are forced then it should be the same each time? (TODO)

Tar --mtime and sorting files are managed by reproducible dpkg

Deterministic ar is set by reproducible dpkg

Force always same compressor options: CRC and compression level in ?our dpkg from Mempo

Verify

First your friend, trusted person, or even you yourself should #build the kernel from sources and publish resulting checksums of deb files.

Then everyone can download the .deb files, verify if the checksum is as published and only then install them (also verify auxiliary files like the fsattr script here).

Then you can be sure that the .deb file at least is matching the source code, without hidden surprises that would be not visible from reviewing the sources.

Verification process

We (?Mempo) are looking for various people, known to community as freedom or FOSS supporters, to help this project in multi-verification of the code.

This are multi-signatures - the idea to have multiple parties providing independent signatures for given .deb file(s), so that user could choose to wait for few separate confirmations from various people before installing a package in order to avoid binary malicious or backdoored version even when the 1 person doing compilation&signature gets compromised (it would then require to compromise many or even all verification developers).

It will probably work better with signing individual .deb files, then when signing entire repository. Therefore it was suggested (<pabs>) to possibly check out dpkg-sig (e.g see this article).

One idea is to provide files like:

linux-image-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.28_02_amd64.deb.verified.by-bob.gpg linux-image-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.28_02_amd64.deb.verified.by-alice.gpg linux-image-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.28_02_amd64.deb.verified.by-rfree.gpg

This files would be gpg signed text files with expected checksums and some other information, including checksum of the source code that was built.

Doing this is possible today, thought there is no tool yet to download/verify this data automatically.

Help in verification

The work is quite trivial - please do the following to help us and all other users:

execute the #build commands including installing our dpkg (locally on kernelbuild user)

look at the resulting .deb files checksums

fill in the form below, sign it with gnupg and paste bin somewhere and notify us on IRC ?Mempo#Contact also ask us if anything below is not clear.

software=mempo/deterministic-kernel sources-url=https://github.com/mempo/deterministic-kernel.git sources-sha1=.......... sources-tag=.......... sources-sign-by-fpr=.......... my-name-or-pseudonym=.......... my-code-review=.......... (see below) my-grsecurity-sigchecked=.......... (see below) my-checksum=.......... .......... my-checksum=.......... .......... my-computer-system=.......... my-computer-kernel=.......... my-computer-arch=.......... my-computer-type=.......... my-computer-trust=.......... (see below) my-tools-sha1-mempo-deb-dpkg=.......... [details] <human> --Following "cannary" lines scan be deleted, but it's preferred to have it. Also DELETE THIS comment line please.-- <cannary>I hereby freely say that I am not, and I never was, and I do not suspect to be in foreseeable future, under ANY form of NDA or gag order (nor ANY influence) that could in any way affect this verification testimony. (I am in law jurisdiction: <j>.........</j>).</cannary> I, ...... (known from/related to project: ......) can confirm, that I downloaded the source code with git sha1 sum as in line sources-sha1= above, and I built it on my system as described above, and that these sources did in fact produced the files with checksums as listed above in my-checksum= lines, and that the said build was done under following conditions: * value of line my-computer-trust= means security of computer used by me for this: 0-50 is regular, 50-100 is hardened, 100-200 is +always airgap, 200-300 is +openhardware computer, best self-build * value of my-code-review= means how I reviewed the primary source code (the sources that have checksum sources-sha1=) as follows: 0=no check; 2=glanced over the code; 4=reviewed by comparing to previously reviewed versions; 8=reviewed from scratch. 10=did deep review. (for all this values, the review applies to files as downloaded from git, with EXCLUSION of the grsecurity*patch file). WARNING: all extra code (e.g. downloaded by running this script) should be checksummed on download by primary source code, otherwise the compilation outcome is not guaranteed to be meaningful. * my-tools-sha1... list sha1sums (e.g. git name) of other sources that I build in order to build this code (e.g. the mempo-deb dpkg). * as in my-grsecurity-sigchecked I did[/not] verified grsecurity*path files as correctly signed by the Spender's pubkey from http://grsecurity.net </human>

The information to fill in about sources is result of command LANG=C git tag -v git describe --tags and also of lsb_release -a

In the line my-tools-sha1-mempo-deb-dpkg= you should paste the git version of the dpkg that you installed as described in #build (use git log in the mempo-deb repository, where you build our version of dpkg).

Please fill it exactly as in following example, because we plan to auto-process this files in future (and paste the <human>...</human> and read before signing)

software=mempo/deterministic-kernel sources-url=https://github.com/mempo/deterministic-kernel.git sources-sha1=bdfae2b8144c4cf03722fccdf14e8b571320d7a5 sources-tag=v0.1.30-03-rc sources-sign-by-fpr=21A5 9D31 7421 F02E C3C3 81F3 4623 E8F7 4595 3F23 my-name-or-pseudonym=John Doe my-code-review=4 (see below) my-checksum=linux-image-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.28_02_amd64.deb 19a34375ff5ed5f8ef4577b8679fd9ac278b6fd13876e0d2f5990d14d89d74d9 my-checksum=linux-headers-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.28_02_amd64.deb 9ab993f142a1fb37d762c0969d73f18e4f6a813b0332d4ba2c18e745fa855f6b my-computer-system=Debian 7.4 my-computer-kernel=3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.28 my-computer-arch=amd64 my-computer-type=intel my-computer-trust=100 my-tools-dpkg-from-sources=3b754a0b57fb235d32648abef8ec176f996d3920 [details] <human> <cannary>I can say that during writing, signing, publishing this testimony I am NOT under ANY form of gag order (nor ANY pressure nor ANY influence) that could in any way affect this code verification testimony. (I am in law jurisdiction: <j>Poland, dependency of EU</j>).</cannary> I, John Doe (e.g. related to John Doe Inc.) can confirm, [... snip ...] </human>

This text should be saved in file named like: thecreated.deb.verified.by-bob and then gpg signed to create thecreated.deb.verified.by-bob.gpg

Trust chain

For ?Mempo-Kernel: obtain the *.deb from mempo repository, then check checksum of it with trustworthy people who did build *.deb from source and check if it produces same binary as in repository.

You: check checksum of *.deb and look for trusted 3rd party signed message that such *.deb is fine.

Volunteers: will spend the 2-3 hours needed to build and verify our *.deb and then confirm you can trust the *.deb with given checksum.

So the full chain trust is:

You should install the *.deb of Kernel

If this is the official Debian Kernel, after Debian will use the script/technique described here, then this *.deb is signed by apt-get GPG key so you trust it implicitly - all done and you are able to repeat the build process to verify if the apt-get GPG key was not compromised.

If this is for the ?Mempo-Kernel, then until this flavour is hopefully included in Official Debian as another kernel option, it is not signed by GPG key of Debian official apt-get.

In this case, verify if the *.deb file you downloaded is signed by security@mempo.org

But how do you verify is security@mempo.org is not compromised nor malicious?

For this verification, you can build the kernel yourself as described here

Compare the content of provided and built *.deb with each other

If matching, you can publish that "Kernel *.deb file with checksum sha512:........ was unpacked and verified to match results of compilation from source by me" so others can do it easier.

In time, we will upgrade the build script to have the final *.deb file identical, then procedure is even faster (just run run.sh and publish sha512 of your *.deb).

?Mempo project might release the *.deb in own repository for easy installation for people that want this.

Ultimately, Debian.org might one day officially include Mempo-kernel in Debian repository (though, even then checksum based verification will be more secure, in case of ftp master key being compromised).

FAQ

FAQ posts solutions to common questions and problems:

Bugs - read also the known #bugs below first! How can I use the kernel #install it or #build What system or computer is this compatible with Debian Wheezy amd64(meaning 64bit both AMD and Intel). Should also work on i386. And should work on Debian Jessie. We consider building thoes versions too, when we have volunteers/resources Any downside - will things run slower? CPU calculations seemed to be not affected, other things could be a bit slower, see ?grsecurity/#performance Any downside - will something not work? please read grsecurity#compatibility Using kernel: Firefox and other programs do not run you run then #grsecurity version of kernel? You forgot to run the setfattr script, see #grsecurity and grsecurity/setfattr. Currently this script needs to be run AGAIN after reinstalling, upgrading. Using kernel: Still some things do not run some drivers, special programs, some hardware drivers, opengl, opencl could be blocked on this security settings. Other settings of grsecurity in ?future could be more permissive. Ask us on mempo as well as at #grsecurity. See grsecurity#compatibility Using kernel: Mounting remote file systems with sshfs don't work Solution is included in grsecurity#compatibility section. Using kernel: Programs run slower Grsecurity at high security levels is auditing many system calls and internal operations to make sure even new unknown exploits would be usually blocked. This takes time. CPU operations should work as fast. See grsecurity#performance Build: Wrong version of something if libc differs a bit then it should work but the binary files can differ similar to what happened in #bug2 (that is not our bug - just you need to use correct version of libs). If dpkg, gettext etc - then you must install them as described here. Build: Not enough free space It will probably run out of disk space. If you would try to fix that and create space on another partition then move (or symlink) entire home or the top directory, in the end the working directory must be as expected (at least as of 2014-02-14) script will warn you if the work dir is incorrect. Build: Wrong checksum on file (on linux kernel) probably file was corrupted in the cached download on your hard drive, in ~/Downloads/linux... or in kernel-sources/ where you build SameKernel. Delete this partially download file, and script will re-download. -or- in rare cases it could mean network download error, or actual attack on you (DNS spoof/network takeover - and sending malicious file instead), in such case back up the file and report people you trust / security researchers Build: Wrong checksum on file (other file, included in SameKernel) files corrupted on disk, or mistake in our script/sources listing. Contact us Build: Wrong dpkg version do as the error message says. Can not run as root do as the error message says. Build: Wrong username do as the error message says. Build: Wrong directory do as the error message says.

Bugs

bug1 [low] [fixed] gzip problem while building from source

#bug1 Error unknown option '-' to gzip:: error

Thanks to benbrown we managed to locate problem. Output of strace:

execve("/bin/gzip", ["gzip", "-n", "-c-1"], [/* 15 vars */]) = 0

This bug is caused by passing -c%d instead -c9 to gzip compress in dpkg, since we fixed it only for xz compression. Problem appears on machines without installed zlib1g-dev when compiling dpkg.

Solutions:

Fix: We have patched dpkg, forcing the same level of compression on all compressors.

Workaround: Install zlib1g-dev and rebuild dpkg.

bug2 [very-low] [fixed] Headers checksum not matching since fixdep has other gcc name

#bug2 (fixed before 2014-02-29) not matching checksum of the deb with headers, just the gcc name differs

Solution: you must have identical version of tools that have their version embed in binaries during compilation - especially gcc and libc6. Now script will partially try to detect/warn you. Simply run system update before building. If you try to build older kernel it might be harder, you would need correct versions of libs - or instead compare by hand as explained in next paragraphs.

Impact: just makes it harder to produce-verification (but despite that you can just trust that other people your trust said source==kernel)

Info: the headers deb is sometimes different, between systems; It turn out that some of binary programs there like fixdep have embbed other exact name/version of gcc compiler.

News: seems to be result of differences in libc library package, will add check for it in run.sh

Workaround: update fully your system before building (and in retrospection - use identical version that developers used). Workaround: unpack your deb and the orginal deb and inspect diff, only the binaries should differ, and with command you can check the problem:

<vyrly@oftc> Can check GCC version easly using command: readelf -p .comment fixdep <tefnoot@oftc> String dump of section '.comment': <tefnoot@oftc> [ 0] GCC: (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2 <tefnoot@oftc> [ 1c] GCC: (Debian 4.4.7-2) 4.4.7

also you can hexdump the both binaries and diff them, it should be like:

<rfree> -000022f0 20 28 44 65 62 69 61 6e 20 34 2e 34 2e 37 2d 33 | (Debian 4.4.7-3| <rfree> +000022f0 20 28 44 65 62 69 61 6e 20 34 2e 34 2e 37 2d 32 | (Debian 4.4.7-2| but also this line, it's probably same info about version but in binary (int?) -00000240 14 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 47 4e 55 00 9c 99 41 b2 |........GNU...A.| -00000250 36 53 75 44 d1 54 57 84 cd 01 f0 2b 84 17 a2 27 |6SuD.TW....+...'| +00000240 14 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 47 4e 55 00 ad 80 0e 61 |........GNU....a| +00000250 2c ee 29 52 92 10 8f f0 09 90 e3 e3 42 2d 4b 36 |,.)R........B-K6|

Though above is not 100% guaranteed the difference is not a trojan. Perhaps further assembler analysis of that section can prove it (readelf)

Research: this happens even if dpkg says gcc, gcc-4.7 are same. Some other packages are involved.

More details:

bug3 [very-low] [fixed] not setting concurency

#bug3 was reported by ?SeekingFor@irc2p; was fixed in 47d5cb24945c52122a51f8b4837728498b604cf1 + regression fixed 7fcba6d3cdc048b758ff3c3156721b7a41a96115

<SeekingFo> some small bug @ build.sh script <SeekingFo> its always using CONCURRENCY_LEVEL == 8 <SeekingFo> reason, its one time CONCURRENCY_LEVEL for export with fixed assignment of 8, and CONCURENCY_LEVEL for the actual cpu core check <SeekingFo> so the ones at nproc check just misses its second "R" <SeekingFo> deterministic-kernel/kernel-build/linux-mempo/build.sh that is [...?...] <SeekingFo> K1773R, right. the script does that already but uses a wrong variable to store its result

bug4 [very-low] [opened] grsec: eth0 not auto starting

#bug4 was reported by trolly@irc2p

It was reported that with grsecurity kernel (compared to stock debian's?) the eth0 card is not auto starting and needs ifdown/ifup.

This might be juts a case of compatibility issues, and fix could be to manually load the module (modprobe ..., or config files?)

TODO: check in dmesg and /var/log/messages for message related to grsec or to blocked module autoloading.

It could be also that this version of kernel (not grsec) supports this card worse, could be compared with identical SameKernel but without grsec. That is unlikely option.

bug5 [very-low] [wip] missing depends libc6

#bug5 was reported by benbrown; now fixed in 190ae7853be8ede91ab25dadf747f2aa4f2665c9

During one of his builds, (wheezy in chroot in jessie) he got other control file content:

Installed-Size: 41656 -Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7) Recommends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, gcc | c-compiler, make (>= 3.80-10), binutils (>= 2.12), util-linux (>= 2.10o)

bug6 [very-low] [fixed] not clearing local dpkg dir vs link

#bug6 was reported by rfree When we switched in 190ae7853be8ede91ab25dadf747f2aa4f2665c9 from copying to linking of the dpkg status (ln -s /var ~/.local/var....) then script could fail to delete the old copy (no -r recursive) and would silently make a wrong link in subdir causing dpkg data to not be updated. Only would happened if you would use older versions of this script there first.

When building this old version, after building using even older versions, you should first cleanly delete entire ~/.local/var/ related to dpkg status/info.

This bug probably never affected anyone (this conditions above, plus there would need to be change in dpkg versions of relevant packages libc etc between these 2 versions) but still full disclosure. Is being fixed in version on 2014.03.31.

bug7 [HIGH] [resolved] config without UDEREF or KERNEXEC

#bug7 was reported [hidden], first found/announced by comex, it is not really a bug, and does NOT affect grsecurity in general.

Mempo-related only, Grsecurity-configuration, Security related.

In ?Mempo's default settings for our kernel we chosen to enable XEN support (as in Debian) at cost of disabling UDEREF / KERNEXEC - since CONFIG_XEN=y is the default for Debian kernels.

In next mempo versions, even in the desktop config-good (the default configuration) will disable XEN and enable UDEREF / KERNEXEC because they are important protections.

We will probably release config-mediumxen as separate kernel variant for people who need it.

(Initially we thought that was overlooked somehow by Mempo team, but then it was clarified that XEN setting was copied, as other options, from Debian default kernel config. We will remove more security sensitive options in future as we test their compatibility impact).

Check packages if they differ

If two resulting .deb would have other checksums then you can proceed as follow (from memory, improve this description TODO)

place one package in directory a/ and other in b/ and execute following actions (on each package)

unpack the .deb

compare checksums of the 3 tar gz files there, fine one that differ and continue with him

gz unpack the files to .tar, find one that differs and continue; If they would all match then it was problem with gz headers/compression level/etc

unpack files pick file that differs; if it would match then it was problem with tar flags/sort order/etc

if that is the vmlinuz file then you can analyze it's assembler (see some examples here in FAQ and in /Test) and diff that

look at list of things (differences) that were fixed previously in #How_this_works

Once it reaches Debian, you can also just use debbindiff.

Test

Tests - please test this script and report any problems to ?Mempo and on IRC #mempo also add here to wiki in /Test :

Downloads Old

Archive of older downloads.

This archive is only for transparency, do NOT use old versions for anything you should update immediately to current version because they fix vulnerabilities that get discovered in Linux Kernel.

The newest version (as of time of updating this wiki) is v0.1.41. sha256sum:

48292a223ca853c5094256115c71211eea319d394fddf6704e7cbec9bb130600 linux-headers-3.2.57-grsec-mempo.desk.0.1.41_01_amd64.deb

90ff216cb044e620ac0a15217ab6285243877f3c96dd683b19e233fb5c5335a3 linux-image-3.2.57-grsec-mempo.desk.0.1.41_01_amd64.deb

¶ Download (or #download_deepnet), #verify and #install this ready hardened kernel: version mempo-v0.1.40-01-release of kernel 3.2.57 with grsecurity and built in deterministic way:

wheezy, with grsecurity /mempo, variant "?desk" get the 2 files named *mempo.desk.0.1.40_01_amd64.deb from http://mempo.org/downloads/ also get the signatures and check them. Write down this checksums on paper, and write+compare yours right before installing from hard drive, sha256sum : 2d01d3b947ffabf236d5e742b76e09b1ac7bd3728bf4d6b5d027daec2236af81 linux-headers-3.2.57-grsec-mempo.desk.0.1.40_01_amd64.deb a26dbb1e09c1fd55bd1b5ed8e6494a38b06209972fd0d3a7619e63642c747bff linux-image-3.2.57-grsec-mempo.desk.0.1.40_01_amd64.deb



¶ Download (or #download_deepnet), #verify and #install this ready hardened kernel: version mempo-v0.1.39-01-release of kernel 3.2.57 with grsecurity and built in deterministic way:

wheezy, with grsecurity /mempo, variant "?desk" get the 2 files named *mempo.desk.0.1.39_01_amd64.deb from http://mempo.org/downloads/ also get the signatures and check them. Write down this checksums on paper, and write+compare yours right before installing from hard drive, sha256sum : d513a3fb98d18da1dde574578573c0985278ccff745cd44eef2a6bb79020da18 linux-headers-3.2.57-grsec-mempo.desk.0.1.39_01_amd64.deb 55213ccf27ae5d2142119a9168b6dbcb469adf26d625b2f7d18a5a8ec8453a9c linux-image-3.2.57-grsec-mempo.desk.0.1.39_01_amd64.deb



¶ Download (or #download_deepnet), #verify and #install this ready hardened kernel: version mempo-v0.1.38-05-release of kernel 3.2.57 with grsecurity and built in deterministic way:

wheezy, with grsecurity /mempo, variant "?desk" http://mempo.org/downloads/linux-headers-3.2.57-grsec-mempo.desk.0.1.38_05_amd64.deb + sig http://mempo.org/downloads/linux-image-3.2.57-grsec-mempo.desk.0.1.38_05_amd64.deb + sig also get the signatures and check them. Write down this checksums on paper, and write+compare yours right before installing from hard drive, sha256sum : 4569681d5a687fa67446f2127c1b20200eb7202891c6a2c724802da0e0766b87 linux-headers-3.2.57-grsec-mempo.desk.0.1.38_05_amd64.deb 8c9e57b6792bb61aacac0707b1ecfc257391beee3a2da8b0eb15ef85973addd7 linux-image-3.2.57-grsec-mempo.desk.0.1.38_05_amd64.deb



¶ Download, #verify and #install ready hardened kernel: version mempo-v0.1.36-06-release of kernel 3.2.55 with grsecurity and built in deterministic way:

wheezy, with grsecurity /mempo, variant "?good" linux-image-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.36_06_amd64.deb = sha256: e852876d28e539abb373eb413455cc4ccdb7feb5e51b7324ccdcea388087dd52 mirror1 linux-headers-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.36_06_amd64.deb = sha256: 5200c1f522a3ce244351fe26bea9a279757a641fc6270f99756cff84256abc5f mirror1



be aware of #bug7 that affects all versions below.

¶ is in progress. reported checksums below.

be aware of #bug7 that affects this version.

<tefnut@freenode> c701c085a4245b76092354dc974eadc43e3f7f6d057c6b8c3c5d7323842ef797 kernel-build/linux-mempo/linux-headers-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.35_02_amd64.deb

<tefnut@freenode> d836976f4a1e413d506cd5c31e9cdcf6ecb7a76373ec25677409a31390e8ae3a kernel-build/linux-mempo/linux-image-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.35_02_amd64.deb

This was never released. The checksums can differ because the used concurrency level during compilation was later saved into .deb.

be aware of #bug7 that affects this version.

¶ Download, #verify and #install ready hardened kernel: version mempo-v0.1.31-01-rc of kernel 3.2.55 with grsecurity and built in deterministic way:

wheezy, with grsecurity /mempo, variant "?good" linux-image-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.31_01_amd64.deb = sha256: 38a9ccc5b89f7675f619d91ccb0bf2258c7ab9694780a9bffd8823af2c70237a mirror1 or mirror2 (?) linux-headers-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.31_01_amd64.deb = sha256: dc8846600887be5ee219ba91cce77cd2ba4170c4c719b864db3ad589a2e1fc6f mirror1 or mirror2 (?)



¶ Download, #verify and #install ready hardened kernel: version mempo-v0.1.28-rc2 of kernel 3.2.55 with grsecurity and built in deterministic way:

wheezy, with grsecurity /mempo, variant "?good" linux-image-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.28_02_amd64.deb = sha256: 19a34375ff5ed5f8ef4577b8679fd9ac278b6fd13876e0d2f5990d14d89d74d9 mirror1 or mirror2 (?)

or

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1b2dcfe323f30b4fd7af7c464856f3f0df867fda&dn=Same+Kernel+-+Mempo+Projec+-+.deb+files&tr=http://tracker2.postman.i2p/announce.php (?) linux-headers-3.2.55-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.28_02_amd64.deb = sha256: 9ab993f142a1fb37d762c0969d73f18e4f6a813b0332d4ba2c18e745fa855f6b mirror1 or mirror2 (?)

or

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:23d62883e701c27ebb185ef99aac4d521e7f9764&dn=Same+Kernel+-+Mempo+Projec+-+.deb+files&tr=http://tracker2.postman.i2p/announce.php (?)



¶ Download, #verify and #install ready hardened kernel: version mempo-v0.1.25-rc2 of kernel 3.2.54 with grsecurity and built in deterministic way:

wheezy, with grsecurity /mempo, variant "?good" linux-image-3.2.54-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.25_02_amd64.deb = sha256: 589a30c6902679d0e9e359ae218a03d1876bcc6eb1049b60c823a45191e9cad9 mirror1 or mirror2 (?) linux-headers-3.2.54-grsec-mempo.good.0.1.25_02_amd64.deb = sha256: 2c52b8d6c4a9f0de9371ce16e256cbac781c15191b67cf997e17426b96043d82 mirror1 or mirror2 (?)

wheezy, without grsecurity not tested yet (TODO)



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