SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

[Rob Healey]

In article <1991Feb20.005322.24769 at scuzzy.in-berlin.de> src at scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:
>>SCO managed to get it working before their first release; AT&T and Dell
>>managed to get it "fixed" for their second release.  All without having to
>>redesign an enormous program written entirely in assembly.  Or would you
>>rather that the fpu emulator have more bugs introduced?
>well, HOW did they fix it???

	I'll take a flying leap blind guess and say that they probably
	moved the location of the "registers"/"code" to a seperate
	page in memory that could have different MMU tags from the u block.

	This would seem to be the obvious solution, but again, it's just
	a guess.

		-Rob