[plug] Help needed - hackers/crackers and monolithic kernels

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Fri Aug 5 12:30:43 WST 2005


Cameron Patrick wrote:

[...]
> Given that most recent Linux sploits that I know about have taken
> advantage of things like system calls which didn't check their
> arguments or bugs in interpreting the header fields of executables
[...]

*sigh* This is more or less exactly what Shayne was getting at wasn't
it?  Time for me to go back to primary school and practice reading
comprehension.

CP





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