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Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 23:52:54 +0200
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...xchg8b.com>
To: Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	Adam Zabrocki <pi3@....com.pl>
Subject: Re: The story of the Linux kernel 3.x...

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:39:44PM -0700, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> >
> > But we're making progress, we now know that opensuse on x86 is broken.
> >
> >
> Is VSYSCALL at a fixed address a similar problem?  My Ubuntu boxes indeed
> have this mapped at the fixed location mentioned.
> 
> --Dan

Not unless you can find a way to break it, it's a requirement and (in
theory) sanitised. This is suboptimal, but this is not news.

Tavis.

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