Anyone protecting the stack?

David Rhodus drhodus at catpa.com
Thu Sep 18 20:47:26 PDT 2003


On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 09:15 PM, Kip Macy wrote:

Anything doing dynamic translation is going to need to generate and
execute code outside of its code segment. I don't know this for sure,
but probably even VMWare does this as there are a number of privileged
x86 instructions that don't trap.
Have you seen VMWare crash a machine before, I have ? Now is says that 
it
runs in using bits that segment it from the rest of the machine....

-DR 






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