Re: [BROKEN PATCH] syscalls leak data via registers?

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 10:11:57 EST


On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 03:30, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I believe userspace depends on registers to be preserved over system
> call, except for eax.

That's what I was wondering. Does it? Is that a documented part of the
syscall interface?

> So what you found is not only security problem,
> but also crasher bug.

In these sense that it crashes userspace?

        J

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