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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UDP Source Error (on windows)
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Andy Walls |
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UDP Source Error (on windows) |
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Thu, 19 May 2016 11:58:08 -0400 |
On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 11:32 -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> I'll comment that the Windows socket implementation isn't in
> compliance with the spirit of the robustness principle. But, whatevs.
> Easy enough to just remove that option for the UDP case.
>
I think it's a bit of a security failing of Linux to allow injection of
4 unused bytes into the kernel space from user-space for every locally
opened UDP socket. I'm not sure how I could exploit it (perhaps coding
a jump instruction to a no-op sled somewhere nearby?), but I'm not that
creative.
Meh.
-Andy