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Comment by Cloudef

5 years ago

This sounds like a potential attack vector.

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skissane  5 years ago

I'm not sure why it would be. If the boundary information were wrong, the CPU instruction decode would fail, but that should just be an invalid instruction exception, which operating systems already know how to handle.

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