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  How To Exploit NULL Pointers

  Posted: April 13th, 2010, 11:03pm CEST by kdawson

  Tags:  programming  

  An anonymous reader writes "Ever wondered what was so bad about NULL pointer exceptions? An MIT Linux kernel programmer explains how to turn any NULL pointer into a root exploit on Linux. (There was also a previous installment about virtual memory and how to make NULL pointers benign.)"

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