Posted Nov 11, 2004 14:42 UTC (Thu) by melauer (guest, #2438)
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> As usual, this was fixed in Plan 9 many years ago.
The pencil and paper which I use as a word processor doesn't have these vulnerabilities either. Now that's secure design!
Some Linux kernel security vulnerabilities
Posted Nov 11, 2004 16:06 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
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> As usual, this was fixed in Plan 9 many years ago.
I don't know about the in-kernel stuff, but Plan9's basic read() system call doesn't differ much from common Unix semantics -- including short reads -- and thus I kindof doubt that the inside is different.