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Add guard pages to mmaped memory regions #62

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serban300 opened this issue Jan 21, 2020 · 0 comments

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serban300 commented Jan 21, 2020

In theory it is possible to take a pointer to a mmaped memory region and read/write outside of the region's bounds.

We could prevent this behavior by adding a guard page at the beginning and at the end of each region.

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Surround memory mappings with guard pages #77

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andreeaflorescu added this to Needs Changes in rust-vmm status

andreeaflorescu moved this from Needs Changes to TODO in rust-vmm status

andreeaflorescu moved this from TODO to Needs Review in rust-vmm status

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