Fun with NULL pointers, part 2
Fun with NULL pointers, part 2
Posted Jul 22, 2009 7:01 UTC (Wed) by PaXTeam (guest, #24616)In reply to: Fun with NULL pointers, part 2 by ebiederm
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> What made all of this interesting is the fact someone found a way around the defensive measure of mmap_min_addr.
It's not at all interesting because any feature which is *designed* to be circumventible will be, well, circumvented. From day one it was obvious and publicly discussed that exploit writers would go after the needed capability (that assuming they don't have better bugs to exploit not needing it ;).