[Tfug] Re: Linux bug discovered

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:40:40PM -0700, Nick Lopez wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 07:02:57PM -0700, John Kiniston wrote:
> > Yay another i386 platform exploit.
> > 
> > Can anyone recall the last time one of these kernel based exploits 
> > affected arm, sparc , sparc64, mips or ppc ?
> 
>   the do_brk and do_remap ones earlier this year were platform agnostic,
> even if the POC didn't have the shell code for other architectures. I
> think.

This is true.  It is also true that ia64 and x86_64, which only
kinda-sorta fall into the i386 platform definition are only a bit less
frequently hit.  But in I believe, last December or maybe Janurary there
was a ppc64-specific one, and I again believe there was a ppc32 (related
to openfirmware) issue, that was just an information leak (again, I
_think_).  Finally, the information leak via /dev/rtc was moderately
arch-specific, and had arm, mips, sparc*, ppc and a few other weird
arches hit, as they all had their own rtc driver, with a copy of the
bug.

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Tom Rini
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