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Kernel 0-day - read the uninitialized bytes of the kernel stack (grok.org.uk)
2 points by gasull on Nov 11, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Uninitialized scratch array in the Berkeley Packet Filter code. It is smallish, 16 words? But presumably you can run the attack a lot and see a bunch of different 16 words sections.

The astounding patch can be found here:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128934173821229&w...




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