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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.193529.15339@kithrup.COM>
Date: 21 Feb 91 19:35:29 GMT
References: <7667@crash.cts.com> <1991Feb21.141349.26015@virtech.uucp>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <1991Feb21.141349.26015@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>This kind of change will require a recompile of every module that accesses
>the user structure plus some additional changes in the setup code that places
>the user structure at virtual adress 0xE...

Which happens to include just about every device driver, and *does* include
things like NFS.  No, it's not an easy change (well, actually, it's an
*easy* change to make, provided you do it with all the sources to
everything, and then recompile it all 8-().  I, personally, am interested to
see if they are going to do it in a compatable manner...

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