Subject: Re: Pentium Bug may cause system crash
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/12/1997 14:05:45
Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com> writes:
> If their patch just looks through the code for '0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8'
> when exec()'ing, then what stops the malicious from reassembling the
> sequence at runtime?
I don't know what it does... All I see are .o files, and I don't have
the time to investigate that...
I also don't want a trap for each instruction so the kernel can investigate
to see if it is the sequence or not...
I really don't see how a software workaround is plausable for this sort
of bug.
--Michael