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Malware As A Service (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by alphacyberranger to c/[email protected]

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[–] ricecake 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also, it's less about "their" drivers and more about what a kernel module can do.
Saying "there's no way to know" doesn't fit, because we do know that a malformed kernel module can destabilize a linux or mac system.

"Malformed file" isn't a programming defect or something you can fix by having a better API.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Having the data exposed to userspace via an API would avoid having to have a kernel module at all... Which when malformed wouldn't compromise the kernel.

[–] ricecake 4 points 3 months ago

I mean, sure. But typically operating systems don't expose that type of information to user space, instead providing a kernel interface with user mode configuration.

It's why they use the same basic approach on mac and Linux.