Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:31:46 -0500 | From | Jack Lloyd <> | Subject | Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag |
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:13:20PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > A process can send a signal via kill. IOW, a malicious process can > *control when the process would be interrupted* in order to get it into > the signal handler with DF=1.
If the malicious process can send a signal to another process, it could also ptrace() it. Which is more useful, if you wanted to be malicious?
Jack
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