From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,71171f53c22d92b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-12 00:54:43 PST Message-ID: <3FB1F484.50705@nowhere.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:51:16 +0800 From: Adrian Hoe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel References: <3FB1A63C.9080200@nowhere.com> <8Eisb.14119$hB5.9208@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.190.26 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.190.26 X-Trace: news.tm.net.my 1068627260 219.95.190.26 (12 Nov 2003 16:54:20 +0800) Organization: TMnet Malaysia Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!news1.tm.net.my Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2401 Date: 2003-11-12T16:51:16+08:00 List-Id: J Cusick wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:26:44 +0000, Stephane Richard wrote: > > >>For some reason, I can't open that link you posted here.. >> > > The Register site seems to be down at the moment... The link is good. > > The article discusses the fact that someone tried to slide in a C line > (actually 2 lines) that trashed the tcp stack allowing a negative offset > in a fragment to crash the stack (if I remember somewhat accurately) > Luckily it was caught before it was rolled in to the official distro. Yeah, = and == make a lot of difference. It supposed to be: someone == root but it turned up to be some = root That's catastrophic! > The thoughts that goes through one's mind are interesting while reading > this... Bill G. has lots of money, I wonder how much this would have > dented his pocketbook? :-) I think he would not care about it. It is not his money but those poor M$ users! Bill still can make a great fortune after all! -- Adrian Hoe m a i l b o x AT a d r i a n h o e . c o m