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fooqux • today at 3:16 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

If you can corrupt memory in a controllable way, you can get a computer to do just about anything that process has rights to. Possibly even the kernel, if you can get at some shared memory.


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kgeist • today at 3:19 AM

But it's not a given that memory corruption is exploitable as an RCE specifically. I thought to call something an RCE you need a working exploit?

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