On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:44:52PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Mihai Chelaru wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 15 May 2002 01:01, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >
> > Yes, thanks. I was too lazy to check the fstat13 wrapper. The problem is that
> > on a NetBSD 1.5.2 (installed under a vmware 2.0.4) copyout worked to copy
> > between kernel-kernel. Could be because of vmware ?
> 
> Probably. i386 has a shared-address space; the kernel is mapped into the
> top of each process's address space. So the addresses were valid, and
> vmware probably ignored the not-user-space check.

In that case it is particularly broken!
Definitely a serious security problem.....


	David

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