From: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: In search of SunOS 4-era security advisory.
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:27:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFWeb9KGYBtFeAkJVye83egP=UfJosY31PRFdN3v0VHTx++LSw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W5rnakOGAOh0ChnGi7RvjYbBwM=pGP9BF_EmVMY2Bv7Sg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, 17:13 Dan Cross, <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> The security vulnerability in question could be briefly summarized as,
> "Fortran divide-by-zero gives root." I think that was just a specific
> manifestation of the underlying problem, though. More specifically it
> was actually due to failure to sanitize state after handling a SIGFPE
> (and possibly other signals as well?).
>
> I have a distinct memory of this, but can no longer find any evidence
> for it. Did I just make it up from whole cloth, or was this actually a
> thing?
>
> - Dan C.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-11 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-11 17:11 [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2023-01-11 17:27 ` Alec Muffett [this message]
2023-01-11 17:30 ` [TUHS] " Dan Cross
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