How security holes happen
Andrew Cooper
root at 127.0.0.1
Tue Mar 4 19:52:31 EST 2014
On 03/03/2014 22:19, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 03Mar2014 09:17, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> Wrote in message:
>>>
>>
>> Imo the lesson here is never write in low level c. Use modern
>> languages with well designed exception handling.
>
> What, and rely on someone else's low level C?
>
Why is C the lowest denominator?
Even with correctly written C and assembly, how can you be sure that
your processor is executing the SYSRET instruction safely?
(CVE-2012-0217 for anyone interested)
~Andrew
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