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Apple Mac OS X 10.4 temp_patch_ptrace(): Nonsense in kernel-land
Posted by: Subreption LLC in Security Apple 3 years, 6 months ago Several software vendors realized, sometime during the 1990-2000 timeframe, that exporting system call tables within kernel address space was a bad idea. This obviously doesn't mean anything to Red Hat and other GNU/Linux vendors who are happily providing world readable System.map files. Not like anybody needs them, though. Then again, you have to face potential funniness of contradictory measures, like Apple's own mistakes. This article won't talk about yet another bug introduced by a Linux developer working at Red Hat (and later silently fixed by another employee of the very same company), but an interesting issue with Mac OS X 10.4 systems on PowerPC. read more / Comments- < Previous
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