vmsplice(): the making of a local root exploit [LWN.net]

vmsplice(): the making of a local root exploit

Posted Feb 12, 2008 22:32 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: vmsplice(): the making of a local root exploit by tialaramex
Parent article: vmsplice(): the making of a local root exploit

I think the intention was to model it on type-inferencing strongly typed 
systems, actually: but of course that sort of inferencing can't cross the 
separate-compilation-and-language abstraction boundary between the kernel 
and userspace (not to mention the privilege boundary, which is perhaps 
less significant in this case).

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