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SAI_Peregrinus on July 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Grsecurity: Potential contributory infringement an...

Since crashes (especially segfaults) are often indications of an exploitable vulnerability causing the kernel to crash isn't exactly a good thing. It prevented one attack, caused a (probably short) denial of service, and may be further exploitable.

ryanlol on July 10, 2017 [–]

Grsec doesn't magically make bugs go away, it just makes many of them unexploitable, or at least very hard to exploit.

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