Re: C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel

[Adrian Hoe <adrianhoe@nowhere.com>]

J Cusick wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:26:44 +0000, Stephane Richard wrote:
> 
> 
>>For some reason, I can't open that link you posted here..
>>
> 
> The Register site seems to be down at the moment... The link is good.
> 
> The article discusses the fact that someone tried to slide in a C line 
> (actually 2 lines) that trashed the tcp stack allowing a negative offset
> in a fragment to crash the stack (if I remember somewhat accurately)
> Luckily it was caught before it was rolled in to the official distro.



Yeah, = and == make a lot of difference. It supposed to be:


someone == root

but it turned up to be

some = root

That's catastrophic!

 
> The thoughts that goes through one's mind are interesting while reading
> this... Bill G. has lots of money, I wonder how much this would have
> dented his pocketbook? :-)


I think he would not care about it. It is not his money but those poor 
M$ users! Bill still can make a great fortune after all!
-- 
Adrian Hoe
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