Re: Potenitial security hole in the kernel

From: Kurt Roeckx (Q@ping.be)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 17:29:00 EST

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On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:43:38PM +0200, Vadim Lebedev wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Please correct me if i'm wrong but it seems to me that i've stumbled on
> really BIG security hole in the signal handling code.
> The problem IMO is that the signal handling code stores a processor context
> on the user-mode stack frame which is active while

And how is that different from any other function call?

Kurt

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