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adrian_b 22 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The NX bit is not just about security

That is exactly what the poster to whom you replied said.

So Arm did not add another means to disable this kind of speculative execution, after Spectre was discovered, but they just reused the existing NX flag, expanding its functionality.

samus 22 days ago [–]

That poster wrote about speculative vulnerabilities. But buffer overflows have nothing to do with those.

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