WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
Neva Remailer
nobody at neva.org
Sun Nov 9 07:29:32 PST 1997
Anonymous <anon at anon.efga.org> wrote:
>There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following
>code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no
>MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard
>reboot the only cure):
>
>char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 };
>
>main ()
>{
> void (*f)() = x;
> f();
>}
>
>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?
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