Fwd: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:13.pipe

Pieter de Boer pieter at thedarkside.nl
Fri Oct 2 21:11:23 UTC 2009


Jon Passki wrote:
> Has the FreeBSD Secteam tested setting VM_MIN_ADDRESS to some high
> number such as 65536? This does not fix the vulnerability per se, but
> one would hope it stops a user mapping code to 0x0.
> 
See the FreeBSD-EN-09:05.null erratum that contains a patch that allows
you to do this with a sysctl :)

-- 
Pieter


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