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linkregistertoday at 3:01 AM1 replyview on HN

This a heap exploit. Threads share heap access with the main process.


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jcalvinowenstoday at 6:19 AM

I mean... you're missing the forest for the trees, but yes I meant "address space" generally not "stack" specifically. The nginx threads are forked, it would not be that terribly complex to set up a heap with a new random address base in each worker (the only real complexity is dealing with heap allocations which happened before fork()). But the stack matters too, generally moreso.

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