SYSRET fixed even if not broken – DragonFly BSD Digest

2014/07/15 by Justin Sherrill

SYSRET fixed even if not broken

There’s a recently talked about bug in SYSRET that apparently affects a lot of operating systems, including Linux and several BSDs. It looks like DragonFly is not affected, but Matthew Dillon has put in changes just in case.

2 Replies to “SYSRET fixed even if not broken”

Harald Arnesen says:

2014/07/16 at 05:01

From the document you link to:

“OpenBSD and Linux were not vulnerable. Linux actually fixed the bug in 2006, with CVE-2006-0744.”
Justin Sherrill says:

2014/07/16 at 08:05

Yes, and?

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