Pieter de Boer <[email protected]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> writes: > > Pieter de Boer <[email protected]> writes: > > > Given the amount of NULL-pointer dereference vulnerabilities in > > > the FreeBSD kernel that have been discovered of late, > > Specify "amount" and define "of late". > 'amount' => 2, 'of late' is more figure of speech than anything > else. For me, amount was high enough to get interested and 'of late' > may be because I've not been looking long enough.
A search of FreeBSD security advisories shows two in the last four years, plus the current unreleased issue. I agree that there is no reason to allow applications to mmap() at address 0, but surely there must be a better way to make your case than to sow FUD? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
