Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:54:12 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: thoughts on kernel security issues |
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William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote: > > Most of the local DoS's I'm aware of are memory management -related, > i.e. user- triggerable proliferation of pinned kernel data structures.
Well. A heck of a lot of the DoS opportunities we've historically seen involved memory leaks, deadlocks or making the kernel go oops or BUG with locks held or with kernel memory allocated.
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