SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <483 at stephsf.stephsf.com> wengland at stephsf.stephsf.com (Bill England) writes:
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|    The program crashes with a memory falt on SCO ODT 1.0 on a system
|    with an fpu.

  As the original posting said, the bug is in the emulator.

|    I have serious reservations about this kind of post.  While as an
|    system administrator system I want to know, at the same time it
|    is similar to giving handguns to a bunch of street thugs.

  It's more like telling the citizens that the thugs have handguns.
Secrecy doesn't solve anything, and the poster has apparently tried to
interest the vendors in fixing it without success.

  The crackers pick up on stuff like this and share it, and the vendors
don't want to admit they have a problem, so they stonewall.

  I hope the poster also sent it to Spenser Katt (_PC Week_) and Robert
X Cringely (_Info World_) for their gossip columns. They thrive on
coverups.
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