SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

[eric.a.olson]

In article <113 at calcite.UUCP> vjs at calcite.UUCP (Vernon Schryver) writes:
>There is no plausible test that would have found the big, bad bug.  Please
>don't suggest a program that would write to all possible invalid pages in
>the hope of causing something unexpected without providing a way to do that
>quickly enough to be useful, ...

	Oh, give me a break.   SOMEONE must have been responsible
	for seeing whether or not writes to illegal pages get
	stopped by a segmentation fault.   It doesn't take _that_ 
	long to go thru your address space.