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


From: TGLASSEY <tglassey () earthlink net>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:39:14 -0700

BAE did this cute poster on the attack model

https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/6f0027d2-c58c-11e3-af1f-12313d0148e5-original.jpeg?goback=%2Egde_1271127_member_5862330295302262788


On 4/16/2014 7:50 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
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



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