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How To Exploit NULL Pointers

Posted by kdawson on from the but-were-embarrassed-to-ask dept.

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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  4. Re:Exceptons? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In other words, you're another fucking idiot Java programmer who doesn't understand how things really work, but think you do.