Re: Using x86 segments against NULL pointer deference exploit

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/06/2009 12:35 PM, matthieu castet wrote:
> 
> May be the sane way should be to forbid mapping page 0, and make run
> application needing page 0 in a
> emulator. After all it is for special case [1] :
> - Win16 binary for wine
> - upstream version of dosemu and qemu have workaround
> 
> But some distro still set mmap_min_addr to 0 (ubuntu+wine, ...) :(
> 

Don't Do That, Then[TM].

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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