Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call
Tom <tb.31123.nospam@comcast.net> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:06:44PM +0800, Isaac To wrote:
>> rather far from changing anything in the kernel memory. Andreas is
>> definitely right that the hole doesn't look like that it is that dangerous.
>
[snip]
>
> If it wasn't a big deal we wouldn't be talking about it. It shut down
> servers. It's dangerous enough.
>
Note the "looks like".
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