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ilyt on Nov 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sudo: Heap-based overflow with small passwords

Case in point: the whole speculative execution was only suspected to maybe be exploitable decades ago, and only now we have a bunch of PoCs

userbinator on Nov 4, 2022 [–]

...which are still only useful under highly contrived conditions which require knowing so much about the target that it wouldn't be a practical concern.

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