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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 02:23:17 +0100
From: Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: strings / libbfd crasher

On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 04:57:23PM -0800, Michal Zalewski wrote:
> Call stack exhaustion is generally non-exploitable
> in itself.

It can be exploitable in multithreaded programs though if there is
an unused stack allocation of at least one page further down in the
stack.

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