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Author: Rainer Weikusat
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Beware
shraptor <shraptor@???> writes:
> On 2016-01-19 16:58, Steve Litt wrote:
>> Beware:
>>
>> http://www.networkworld.com/article/3023447/security/linux-zero-day-affects-most-androids-millions-of-linux-pcs.html
>
> Would this type of misbehavior be mitigated by kernel ASLR?


No.

It could be mitigated by 'uninventing' malloc as the idea to group
objects together based on their size (instead of their type) was never a
particularly good one but that's unlikely to happen.