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Quotes of the week

Quotes of the week

Posted Jun 14, 2012 16:38 UTC (Thu) by nevets (subscriber, #11875)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by PaXTeam
Parent article: Quotes of the week

> yes (if 'happen' = 'are exploitable'). UDEREF on i386 uses segmentation to prevent exactly this class of bugs from becoming exploitable beyond DoS.

Which goes back to my original point. Why run vanilla Linux i386 on x86_64. It's better to just run x86_64 kernel with a i386 userspace, then an i386 kernel if you have extended RAM.


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Quotes of the week

Posted Jun 14, 2012 18:11 UTC (Thu) by PaXTeam (guest, #24616) [Link]

sure, an amd64 kernel manages more RAM in a better way but you had a (rhetorical?) question as to why would someone still stick to i386, i just gave you one possible reason (better kernel self-defense), that's all :).


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