Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @12:45PM
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>These two bugs have been existent for 20 years and there is no known exploits of them.
They don't exactly leave behind a lot of telltale signs.
This is also the kind of bug that is so broad (read access to everything on almost any machine you can execute code on) that a large subset of those equipped to discover it would have kept their mouths shut.
> So you basically start with a broken system to exploit these bugs.
A lot of systems were broken in the time before KASLR came along
They don't exactly leave behind a lot of telltale signs.
This is also the kind of bug that is so broad (read access to everything on almost any machine you can execute code on) that a large subset of those equipped to discover it would have kept their mouths shut.
> So you basically start with a broken system to exploit these bugs.
A lot of systems were broken in the time before KASLR came along