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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:52:46 +0530
From: Vaishali Thakkar <vaishali.thakkar@...cle.com>
To: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Use-after-free and management of reference counts

Hi,

Recently I studied the reported CVEs of last 2 years and there were
fair number of use-after-free bugs. Usually we also see many reports
of use-after-free bugs in the LKML [reported by one or other tools].

Also, at Kernel recipes Jonathan Corbet  mentioned reference counts as
a security issue. I believe if we have more kernel hardening patches
then we can avoid such bugs. I was wondering if there is some ongoing
work in the both [use-after-free and management of reference counts]
of these areas?

If not, then I would like to work on the same. Any pointers on this
would be appreciated.

Thank you.

-- 
Vaishali

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