[TUHS] In search of SunOS 4-era security advisory.

[Alec Muffett]

https://vuls.cert.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=97124523#content/view/97124523



On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, 17:13 Dan Cross, <crossd at 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.
>
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