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SubjectRe: [BROKEN PATCH] syscalls leak data via registers?
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On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 03:30, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I believe userspace depends on registers to be preserved over system
> call, except for eax.

That's what I was wondering. Does it? Is that a documented part of the
syscall interface?

> So what you found is not only security problem,
> but also crasher bug.

In these sense that it crashes userspace?

J

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