Faulty bags were withdrawn from routine use

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Recovering from Faulty Device Drivers

Several studies (see Swift et. al.’s study of Windows XP in SOSP 2003 and Chou et. al’s study of Linux in SOSP 2001) have attributed a large fraction of operating system failures to device driver flaws. Not only can driver errors cause kernel instability, but these errors can also be exploited for privilege escalation and access to kernel data structures. A search on securityfocus.com shows vul...