[Info-vax] Malware in kernel mode, was: Re: Android development Was Re: OT: Larry Ellison takes retirement as CEO of Oracle

[John Reagan]

On Thursday, September 25, 2014 4:15:53 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
 
> BTW, even if the OS hadn't mapped in the full hardware address space,
> it would be trivial for the malware to create it's own page tables
> (and reload the page table base address register) to gain that access
> for itself.
> 

Now you are talking malware that is VMS-specific, not general-purpose x86 malware (which isn't very common).  

What privs does Apache normally have on VMS?  (I've never looked)