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From: rfarris@rfengr.com (Rick Farris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Weitek under unix (was Re: SECURITY BUG)
Keywords: BAD BUG
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.050417.10170@rfengr.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 05:04:17 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.184130.11321@jwt.UUCP> <1991Feb12.020625.6779@kithrup.COM> <54428@bigtex.cactus.org>
Organization: RF Engineering, Del Mar, California
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In article <54428@bigtex.cactus.org> james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes:

> The Abacus (Weitek is the company name) does not use memory for
> registers, but instead uses memory for the instruction set.

> There is no reason a user application should ever need to write to the
> Abacus registers in the u block


So James, I'm having trouble reading through the
obfuscation -- I really don't see what the facts above have
to do with the subject of whether or not Dell Unix has the
bug.

Here, here's a simple yes or no question: "Does Dell Unix
allow user processes to overwrite the u block?"

(You *did* have to jump into this, didn't you?)
:-)


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