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Well OpenSSL didn't implement their own malloc exactly, they used some weird indirection to try and speed it up on some platforms, which may have bypassed prote
by anaphor 13y ago
Well OpenSSL didn't implement their own malloc exactly, they used some weird indirection to try and speed it up on some platforms, which may have bypassed protections that some versions of malloc have enabled (guard pages).
- markbnj 13y agoAgreed, it's a loose analogy at best. The juxtaposition just struck me, mainly because it could be viewed as singling out the real difference, which is how the code was handled.