Who? Me?? Attacked???

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 19:12:11 UTC 2013


Junk <junk at therobinsonfamily.net> writes:
> It also might be something much more mundane such as a bug in the
> browser which occurs when you have 100+ tabs open and tries to write to
> a misaddressed memory region.

It may well be some malloc()-like routine returning 0, saying "no more
memory for you buddy" and the code blindly dereferencing that value and
causing a write to the 0-page.  It is a common error with sloppy coders.

-wolfgang
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