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Posted by Schech, C. W. (“Connor”) on Jun 19

The automatic and mandatory-by-default reordering of OpenBSD kernels
is NOT transactional and as a result, a local unpatched exploit exists
which allows tampering or replacement of the kernel. Arbitrary build
artifacts are cyclically relinked with no data integrity or provenance
being maintained or verified for the objects being consumed with
respect to the running kernel before and during the execution of the
mandatory kernel_reorder process in…

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