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On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 01:03:20PM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> So it doesn't seem to be very practical attack if the victim has set
> itself to be non-dumpable.

Probably, but considering how cheap our fix is, we might just as well
plug that hole too.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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