Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Aug 1999 03:50:43 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Power PC kernel bugs |
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On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 06:03:34AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> I'm concerned with security issues pertaining to architectures > other than Intel, as it is the most widely tested. Particularly > I'm looking for information for PPC and MIPS architectures, as > those are the ones at my disposal right now (besides of course > Intel). > > I've allready dug up a few resources the good old fashioned way, > but I'd like pointers to other ones, preferably specific to PPC > and MIPS arch's.
Typically most software has the same problems on all architectures. That said, the non-standard calling sequence of MIPS which doesn't store the return address on the stack for leaf functions makes actually exploiting buffer overflows quite a bit harder :-)
Ralf
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