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Microsoft Master File Table bug exploited to BSOD Windows 7, 8.1

Steve Knox

Re: More like from the 1970s

The fundamental problem here is that a container for internal state for NTFS appears as a file in the file name space.

No, the problem is not exposing internals as files (that's a convenience found in many systems [/dev , /proc anyone?]), but in not properly securing said internals.

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