Subject: Re: Pentium Bug may cause system crash
To: Markus Illenseer <markus@core.de>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.macbsd.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/08/1997 11:52:25
> Forwared from a Linux group, are we vulnerable as well? See attached
> source code.
I haven't tried it, but I assume that I'd get an illegal instruction,
seg fault, or no effect on my mac68k boxes. The code, as mentioned in
the message, affects all Pentium-based systems, regardless of OS. The
instruction is apparently a user-mode instruction that fully locks the
CPU up. There is no easy way around it except for the processor to be
fixed.
-allen
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