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Federico Biancuzzi, 2007-06-11

Barnaby Jack developed a method for exploiting certain NULL pointer dereferences on the ARM and XScale architectures (and likely PowerPC). This method affects a lot of devices since most mobile phones and PDA are ARM based, and high-end routers often use the XScale architecture.

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Embedded Problems 2007-06-21
Jamie (1 replies)
Just to check; I think most of us who are writing userland code for Linux on ARM will not be affected because our code won't be running in SVC mode. Is that the case?

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