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Win32k before Win10 used to do TrueType/Type 1 parsing in the kernel, with an entire bytecode virtual machine!

• fdsaaf 10y ago
  So what? Linux, today, has a full bytecode interpreter
  • internals 10y ago
    Bigger attack surface in the kernel, for something that doesn't need to be there, and that is historically very difficult to code securely.
  • ryuuchin 10y ago
    grsecurity just disables it outright IIRC (the new one that was added sort of recently, probably year+ at this point).