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Kernel security, year to date

Posted Sep 11, 2008 14:14 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Kernel security, year to date by spender
Parent article: Kernel security, year to date

Huh.. wow. I thought the kernel took care of setting RO mappings for page 0 (and more - the low "ASCII range" of addresses?) to ensure faults, as a security measure (for userspace primarily).

If not, wow. Bring back the seperate user/kernel address space..

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