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		int0x29 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Copy Fail Its not writing to the partition though is it? It is polluting the cache page via a write with a buffer overrun in the kernel. I don't think buffer overruns follow permissions.

zb3 27 days ago [–]

I assumed such memory would be mapped readonly (PROT_READ), without actually looking into it..

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