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SubjectRe: Power PC kernel bugs
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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