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From: ry@cbnewsl.att.com (ryerson.schwark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.152036.17557@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 15:20:36 GMT
References: <529@jahangir.UUCP> <6A5NSZK@dobag.in-berlin.de> <WCR.91Feb14012138@tree.tree.metrolink.com>
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In article <WCR.91Feb14012138@tree.tree.metrolink.com> wcr@tree.metrolink.com (W.c. Rothanburg) writes:
>
>The only problem with setting UAREAUS and UAREAW to zero is you
>cannot do any floating point operations without a co-processor.  
>(I don't have a co-processor to try it with... <sigh>)
>
>We (at Metro Link) have found the AT&T Unix/386 appears to have the
>same problem.  (I heard this second hand and don't know from whom.)  
>
>Bill


Would you check which release you're running?  We've checked our 3.2
systems and none of them have this problem, if you do, I'd like to
hear about it. 


Ry Schwark
AT&T UNIX System Laboratories