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The story restarts again and again

The story restarts again and again

Posted Nov 5, 2009 13:42 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: The story restarts again and again by haypo
Parent article: Another null pointer exploit

There's a conflict between stability and security here. Debian stable probably will be updated to raise the default mmap_min_addr, but we need to clearly announce the change so that users that need DOS/Win16 compatibility know that they need to override it.


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The story restarts again and again

Posted Nov 5, 2009 13:58 UTC (Thu) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869) [Link]

This has already happened. Have a look at DSA 1915-1, dated 23/10/2009.

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