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Are there any write ups for this yet? I can't find a CVE or anything on this one. No word from OpenSSL yet either.

This shouldn't be exploitable on modern linux machines due to https://wiki.debian.org/mmap_min_addr

Who knows for embedded devices.

It wouldn't be exploitable even without that, due to it being a userland dereference. The mmap 0 trick really only applies to kernel exploits. If you're in a position to mmap anything, you can already execute code.

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