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GCC 4.3.0 exposes a kernel bugGCC 4.3.0 exposes a kernel bugPosted Mar 8, 2008 1:52 UTC (Sat) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143)In reply to: GCC 4.3.0 exposes a kernel bug by pleple Parent article: GCC 4.3.0 exposes a kernel bug
The main concern is not that someone will *purposefully* write a program that uses this bug to clobber its own memory, so the fact that someone could have used a non-standard compiler to achieve this is not relevent. The real problem is that the new behavior would open up one more way for programmers to *accidentally* write a program that corrupts its memory, and this could be the memory corruption bug that adds up with other bugs in the application itself to result in an exploit.
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