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    Comment #47181772

    Original publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20362

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    Comment #46939233

    There's another way to explain the UB: IIRC, any value when stored to a _Bool is supposed to be converted to 0 or 1. The memset() bypasses this rule, boom.

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    Comment #46725876

    Original resolution: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2026-002...

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    Comment #46677150

    I'm not an expert, but roughly know the numbers. Usually with password-based key derivation, one would increase resource needs (processor time, memory demand) to counter brute forc…

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    Comment #46373763

    I'm confused, is it bare metal or is it an EFI application? (bare metal used to mean that something can run without services, like those that UEFI provides)

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    Comment #46203963

    Tested with WebKit and Gecko. Apparently the position gets fixed up at runtime if JavaScript is enabled. But why have dynamic elements with CSS if you need JavaScript to fix it?

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    Comment #46203268

    No CSS is better than bad CSS In my browser that "Page Contents" box is hovering above the end of the line, so I can't read the full text. Kind of ironic, that this is on w3.org

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    Comment #45864684

    This, having the whole physical memory mapped all the time, reminds me of a another issue that was exploitable in KVM hypervisors [1]. I wonder what is the reason to have it all ma…

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    Comment #45847619

    Hmmm, it's pretty clear but why the reminder? I read the article hoping to find some enlightenment, something that we can actually do (better) with this information in mind. But I …

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    Comment #45834454

    Release date 1993