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Check for permissions when using pointers from user-space #72

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champo opened this issue Nov 8, 2011 · 0 comments
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Check for permissions when using pointers from user-space #72

champo opened this issue Nov 8, 2011 · 0 comments
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champo commented Nov 8, 2011

System calls can overwrite data that's read-only to a process. System calls that use output pointers should check for write permissions.
Also, a process may pass in a supervisor only address that the kernel can read/write from. This should be avoided too.

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