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Comment by saagarjha

2 years ago

Code that uses syscalls that aren’t in libc but doesn’t want to have to drop to inline assembly?

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saagarjha

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pizlonator  2 years ago

Right, so exploits.

  • saagarjha  2 years ago

    Exploits are more than happy to drop to inline assembly.

    • pizlonator  2 years ago

      Theo already prevented you from making the syscall by using the trap instruction directly because of in kernel checking that you got to the kernel via the right point in libc.

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