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Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt



On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 01:59:40PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> on a system where core.img was embedded, nothing will happen.  OTOH if you do
> the same on a system where core.img was referenced via blocklists, boot will
> start crashing as soon as the (now free) blocks that held the old core.img
> are overwritten.

Ah, and in a worst-case scenario someone could even try to exploit it to
run privileged code, by creating a carefuly crafted huge file.

-- 
Robert Millan

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