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This is out of my already limited area of knowledge. |
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I'll need someone with some hardened expertise to tell me if this is |
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indeed an attack or exploit and something that we need to notify |
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upstream. |
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Don. |
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:25:52PM -0500, Kumba wrote: |
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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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> gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
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"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it." |
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George W. Bush |
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May 20, 1996 |
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