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DateWed, 12 Jan 2005 23:19:49 -0800
FromWilliam Lee Irwin III <>
SubjectRe: thoughts on kernel security issues
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.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:54:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

I'd consider those even more severe.


-- wli
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