Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

[Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>]

On April 17, 2014 at 10:03 gdt () gdt id au (Glen Turner) wrote:
> Jason Iannone wrote:
> > I can't cite chapter and verse but I seem to remember this zeroing
> > problem was solved decades ago by just introducing a bit which said
> > this chunk of memory or disk is new (to this process) and not zeroed
> > but if there's any attempt to actually access it then read it back as
> > if it were filled with zeros, or alternatively zero it.

Actually those were my words trying to describe kernel management of
disk blocks, sparse files, etc, not user space.

  -b