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Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Pieter de Boer <pieter@thedarkside.nl>
Subject: Re: Protecting against kernel NULL-pointer derefs
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Przemyslaw Frasunek <przemyslaw@frasunek.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > A search of FreeBSD security advisories shows two in the last four
> > years, plus the current unreleased issue.
> There are three NULL pointer dereference issues, that I found in last
> month, but probably more to come, so implementing some kind of zero page
> protection should be considered.

Feel free to *actually read what Pieter wrote and what I wrote in reply*

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