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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by Dah00n on Monday August 07, 2023 @04:50PM (#37040773)
Can you use vulnerabilities in a driver that's there but not currently loaded?
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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by mschuster91 on Monday August 07, 2023 @05:11PM (#37040998)
No, and this is what saved a lot of people's arses many times over. A lot of the CVEs for the Linux kernel turn out to be exploitable under very specific circumstances.
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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by toast0 on Monday August 07, 2023 @05:03PM (#37040924)
Not unless you can trigger the system to load it.
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