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Comment by int0x29

18 hours ago

Its not writing to the partition though is it? It is polluting the cache page via a write with a buffer overrun in the kernel. I don't think buffer overruns follow permissions.

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zb3  17 hours ago

I assumed such memory would be mapped readonly (PROT_READ), without actually looking into it..

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