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

[Dan Cross]

That's it. Thanks, Alec!

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 12:28 PM Alec Muffett <alec.muffett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://vuls.cert.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=97124523#content/view/97124523
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> On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, 17:13 Dan Cross, <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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?).
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>> 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?
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>>         - Dan C.