In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
07/28/2006
at 05:16 PM, Wayne Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>While that is true, since non-reentrent code loaded out of an APF
>authorized library is loaded into KEY 8 storage, there is an
>integrity exposure if said code is loaded into a multi-user address
>space, since it is open to being modified (by accident or by intent)
>by a non-authorized program.
Authorization is at the address space level. Normally it's impossible
for authorized and unauthorized programs to run concurrently in the
same address space. If your authorized code circumvents the normal
safeguards then you have more serious issues than what key the code is
loaded under.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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