Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-23 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Andrew, hi all, I understand that Debian has a bunch of vulnerabilities as described in the following PDF. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~xi/papers/stack-sosp13.pdf Just a small quote: This paper presents the first systematic approach for reasoning about and detecting unstable code. We

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-23 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] Isn't it interesting that their one example will potentially dereference the null pointer even before compiler optimizations (from the paper): struct tun_struct *tun=; struct sock *sk = tun-sk; if(*tun) return POLLERR; The check to see that tun is non-null should occur before

Re: Automatic debiian installation

2008-06-07 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[sorry for cross-posting, I guess this thread should move away from debian-devel, but I'm not subscribed to any of the others] Hello, I would like to use a system to install automatically all my debian pc. But i don't know wich could be the best between FAI and PRESSEED. Somebody could