2.4.36-pre1, Preventing NULL Dereferences

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 10, 2007 12:47 AM EDT
KernelTrap; By Jeremy Andrews
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"I've just released Linux 2.4.36-pre1," announced 2.4 maintainer Willy Tarreau. He described a new feature found in the first pre-release: "In private discussions, Solar Designer proposed to restrict the ability to map the NULL address to CAP_RAW_IO capable processes only. The idea behind this was to prevent 'normal' users from trying to exploit NULL dereferences in the kernel which have not been discovered yet. This is purely a preventive measure."

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