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Do not trust pointers from userspace #2

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dennis95 opened this issue Aug 10, 2017 · 0 comments
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Do not trust pointers from userspace #2

dennis95 opened this issue Aug 10, 2017 · 0 comments
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Syscalls currently don't check whether pointers they were given are accessible from userspace. This is a security issue since a userspace process might overwrite kernel code and other things it should not access.
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