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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch
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Ollivier Robert |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch |
Date: |
Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:48:27 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.3i |
According to Florian Weimer:
> present in the page cache. You won't see it normally, because you
> cannot read() beyond the end of the file, but mmap() can only map
> complete pages, so you suddenly see the data (and it was random data
> from kernel or user space, typically not something which ever was on
> disk).
Am I the only one that sees that as a potential security problem?
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