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it appears he has gained knowledge of a range of memory addresses that he shouldn't know since they are supposed to be randomly allocated? that's a deep as i "u
by officialjunk 13y ago
it appears he has gained knowledge of a range of memory addresses that he shouldn't know since they are supposed to be randomly allocated? that's a deep as i "understand" it. hopefully someone else here can go into more detail of how each line is important and what can be done with the information afterwards.
- willvarfar 13y agohttps://lwn.net/Articles/569635/ https://lwn.net/Articles/569635/ explains what KASLR is, and what exploits it tries to defeat. Importantly, whereas ASLR is typically to decrease the success probability of a remote exploit of a user-space app (typically your browser and the plugins it runs), KASLR is defending the kernel with a known privilege escalation exploit from a determined malicious user.