Hi! In the light of the recent x86 vulnerability which allows user space applications to peak into kernel memory and consequently make the system vulnerable to Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) attacks, I have heard that these attacks are not possible on SPARC v9 as the architecture uses separate address spaces for kernel and userspace. While I have found literature that this applies to Solaris, I couldn't find any direct mentions of Linux on SPARC. Does anyone of the SPARC kernel people know what the situation on Linux SPARC is? Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
