11 Jan
2023
11 Jan
'23
5:30 p.m.
That's it. Thanks, Alec!
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 12:28 PM Alec Muffett <alec.muffett(a)gmail.com> wrote:
https://vuls.cert.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=97124523#…
On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, 17:13 Dan Cross, <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The security vulnerability in question could be briefly summarized as,
> "Fortran divide-by-zero gives root." I think that was just a specific
> manifestation of the underlying problem, though. More specifically it
> was actually due to failure to sanitize state after handling a SIGFPE
> (and possibly other signals as well?).
>
> I have a distinct memory of this, but can no longer find any evidence
> for it. Did I just make it up from whole cloth, or was this actually a
> thing?
>
> - Dan C.