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Don Seiler wrote: |
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> I was told by the gaim developers that the bug hits big-endian systems |
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> "harder" than x86 systems. |
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> So this doesn't mean that all big-endian systems WILL fail, so my |
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> absolute working earlier was incorrect. |
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> And a huzzah for sparc64. |
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> Don. |
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I've had reports of it locking up an Indy when logging into Yahoo. SGI |
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mips machines are big-endian, btw. |
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I also found this bug, and I wonder if the two are connected: |
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Bugzilla Bug 37919 |
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net-im/gaim-0.75-r1 reports stack smashing attack when connecting to Yahoo |
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Maybe what we are seeing is a stack-smash attack taking out big-endian |
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machines? (well, most anyways). |
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--Kumba |
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"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: |
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small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are |
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elsewhere." --Elrond |
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