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by dsfyu404ed 3088 days ago
>These two bugs have been existent for 20 years and there is no known exploits of them.

They don't exactly leave behind a lot of telltale signs.

This is also the kind of bug that is so broad (read access to everything on almost any machine you can execute code on) that a large subset of those equipped to discover it would have kept their mouths shut.

> So you basically start with a broken system to exploit these bugs.

A lot of systems were broken in the time before KASLR came along