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Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc


From: Sharif Torpis <storpis () crl com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:16:51 -0800 (PST)

Why is that a problem? Unless somebody could execute the code on the
boxthen it is not a threat - closed systems, like WWW servers (most
servers like
that really) should not be in any danger.

Two words: buffer overflow. You don't always have to have a shell to execute
code on a closed system. What is a "closed system" anyway? Is that like
"computer security"? ;-)



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