Weitek under unix (was Re: SECURITY BUG)

[Rick Farris]

In article <54428 at bigtex.cactus.org> james at bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes:

> The Abacus (Weitek is the company name) does not use memory for
> registers, but instead uses memory for the instruction set.

> There is no reason a user application should ever need to write to the
> Abacus registers in the u block


So James, I'm having trouble reading through the
obfuscation -- I really don't see what the facts above have
to do with the subject of whether or not Dell Unix has the
bug.

Here, here's a simple yes or no question: "Does Dell Unix
allow user processes to overwrite the u block?"

(You *did* have to jump into this, didn't you?)
:-)


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