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Capabilities are a better security model, but don't protect you from kernel bugs. Provably correct kernels (such as seL4) do.

Having said that, being a microkernel, seL4 ends up pushing a bunch of potentially buggy code to use space. There are real benefits to that, but if you can exploit the page table server, the system is pretty much yours.




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