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Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Posted Jul 18, 2009 16:59 UTC (Sat) by xilun (subscriber, #50638)
In reply to: Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted by regala
Parent article: Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Given this source code, gcc has all rights to remove the check, and you obviously don't understand what do and does not imply concurrency, SMP, and preemptible configs.

The real bug is allowing to map 00000000. This can never be right.


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Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Posted Jul 19, 2009 13:18 UTC (Sun) by PaXTeam (subscriber, #24616) [Link]

> The real bug is allowing to map 00000000. This can never be right.

how else would you be able to run v8086 mode tasks then?

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