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Some Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Some Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Posted Nov 11, 2004 3:58 UTC (Thu) by uriel (guest, #20754)
In reply to: Some Linux kernel security vulnerabilities by jwb
Parent article: Some Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

As usual, this was fixed in Plan 9 many years ago.


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Some Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Posted Nov 11, 2004 14:42 UTC (Thu) by melauer (guest, #2438) [Link]

> 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) [Link]

> 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.

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