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There were buffer overflows in the Linux kernel in 2012 ( http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53401 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53401 ). Should we not have fi
by Sanddancer 13y ago
There were buffer overflows in the Linux kernel in 2012 ( http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53401 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53401 ). Should we not have filesystems in the kernel either?
- pdpi 13y agoWell... No, if you're a proponent of the micro-kernel design.
- robert-wallis 13y agoCertainly the string library, of all places, should be using secure code. I'm sure there are sooo many people running Linux on pre-OSX Mac harddrives formatted with HFS that could be hacked with a buffer overflow. Are you seriously arguing that buffer overflows in the kernel are not a big deal?