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Tainting from user space

Tainting from user space

Posted May 25, 2006 11:40 UTC (Thu) by schabi (subscriber, #14079)
In reply to: Tainting from user space by remijnj
Parent article: Tainting from user space

But given access to the whole _physical_ memory allows one to reset the taint flag.


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Tainting from user space

Posted May 25, 2006 12:52 UTC (Thu) by remijnj (subscriber, #5838) [Link]

Hmmm, didn't think of that. You are ofcourse correct. If a user space process has access to physical memory all bets are off.

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