Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc

[woods () most weird com (Greg A. Woods)]

[ On Wed, November 12, 1997 at 10:15 (PST), Randy Bush wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc
>
> gated does not have that illegal instruction sequence in it.  compilers
> don't generate it.  httpd does not have the sequence.

No, httpd certianly should not contain the illegal instruction within
itself, but being the complex critter it is it we find that it commonly
executes other programs on behalf of the remote user.  You might want to
peek at:  CERT Advisory CA-97.25 - CGI_metachar.

There's no clear exploit implied that involves the CPU hang bug (unlike
the corresponding browser bug that's already been discussed), but it
clearly identifies some very real risks that could lead to such exploits.

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