Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:30:45 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Possible security hole? [was: verify_area(...) possible problem] |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > This is old news. I even did a patch: [hopefully noone uses 386's for > multiuser shell servers :-)] . But still it is a bug. I think it > should be fixed.
Oh, I was hoping the patch would actually fix the behaviour, rather than turning off clone :-)
> I do have 386. If you post me nice .c program, I'll happily test it > for you. [What about duplicating it by forcing kernel to think it has > old 386. That should work - 486+ all backward compatible after all.]
Unfortunately 486s are not backward compatible in this regard.
-- Jamie
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