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No need to go that far. If you allow an untrusted process to write to your memory, you've already lost. One thing I haven't seen called out yet is that there is
by bmm6o 5y ago
No need to go that far. If you allow an untrusted process to write to your memory, you've already lost. One thing I haven't seen called out yet is that there is security associated with this API call - ordinary users can only call this on processes that they own.
(And as far as the terminology, these aren't "bugs" since they aren't defects in the software.)