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Posted Jul 24, 2009 1:31 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
Parent article: Fun with NULL pointers, part 2

It would be great if LWN could engage Brad and PaXTeam to write an article in which they lay out what/how the kernel should be changed so that we don't see bugs like this exploited any more.

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Posted Jul 24, 2009 8:58 UTC (Fri) by Trou.fr (subscriber, #26289) [Link] (4 responses)

I concur. Some well detailed explanation about the current shortcomings of the kernel, and how to they could possibly fixed. Without ranting ;)

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Posted Jul 24, 2009 13:04 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (3 responses)

You're not the only one to think about such things...I just noticed that LinuxFR.org has posted an interview with Brad. Only possible problem is that it's in French...

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Posted Jul 24, 2009 14:35 UTC (Fri) by spender (guest, #23067) [Link] (1 responses)

The original English version was just posted as a comment to the article:
http://linuxfr.org/2009/07/24/25761.html

-Brad

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Posted Jul 24, 2009 14:37 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Cool, that speeds the reading process for some of us. FWIW, here's a direct link to the comment.

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Posted Jul 24, 2009 23:29 UTC (Fri) by eparis123 (guest, #59739) [Link]

An older interview with the other half of the Pax team on June:

http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=66&id=2#article