17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
"Paul Bradley" <csm70830@port.ac.uk> wrote:
This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works. Demand a new CPU from Intel.
This didn't crash my Pentium. Hoax?
No way, this P200 croaked instantly the code was run, in the wrong hands this has serious network takedown potential.
The bug is a race condition in the L1 cache, so it doesn't always crash when executing this, just sometimes. It depends on what's in the cache.