Comment on VirtualBox is garbageparentComments−antihero14yWould be a pretty neat exploit to buffer overflow someone's actual kernel via a carefully constructed module name, though.−1amzave14yA neat hack, yes...but probably not worthwhile from the perspective of an actual attacker (if you've got permissions to load a kernel module, you could just load one of your own crafting to do whatever nefarious things you wanted directly).
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Would be a pretty neat exploit to buffer overflow someone's actual kernel via a carefully constructed module name, though.
A neat hack, yes...but probably not worthwhile from the perspective of an actual attacker (if you've got permissions to load a kernel module, you could just load one of your own crafting to do whatever nefarious things you wanted directly).