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Sanitizing kernel memory

Sanitizing kernel memory

Posted May 30, 2009 10:10 UTC (Sat) by willezurmacht (guest, #58372)
In reply to: Sanitizing kernel memory by gmaxwell
Parent article: Sanitizing kernel memory

"any userspace app that reads memory handed to it by the kernel before writing it is broken. Don't these people have valgrind?"

Or maybe it's an exploit for an information/memory leak bug in the kernel that retrieves your root password and tty buffers contents from memory.


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