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From: SEYMOUR@phast.phys.washington.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: SYS.EXE part of DEC security patch -- what is it?
Message-ID: <8805152019.AA02551@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 18 Apr 88 18:47:00 GMT
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tucked into the dec security patch is a replacement of a single
INSV instruction in the pagefault code with a two-instruction
"equivalent".  why?  is this part of the security, or is it a correction
of a bug in sys.exe?
- dick seymour      bitnet: seymour@uwaphast
(yes, i noticed that they are limiting the range of the pointer)
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