Re: Hey old people

[Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () cisco com>]

Here's a copy of the USAF MULTICS Security Evaluation from 1974:

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/karg74.pdf

On Dec 21, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Blue Boar wrote:

> Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> > Certain larger models of the IBM S/360 had "imprecise interrupts"  
> > - meaning that
> > a program check could be recognized after the instruction had already
> > completed.  This was particularly a problem on the mod 95, which  
> > had a 6-deep instruction
>
> Now you're talking!  In fact, I have a reference to a vulnerability  
> that sounds just like what you describe, but it doesn't name the OS  
> or hardware.  Do you know if the problem was *known* in '69?  Do  
> you have any kind of documentation that was written up at the  
> time?  Sounds like you know it yourself pretty well... possibly  
> your word might qualify.
>
> Alternately, anyone have a copy of this?
>
> Goheen, S.M., and Fiske, R.S., OS/360 Computer Security Penetration  
> Exercise, Mitre Corp., Bedford Mass., October 1972.
>
> (Christie at Mitre is supposed to be looking for us... but in case  
> any of you have it handy, or you know... over in the university  
> library ;) )
>
>                                         Ryan
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