WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug

Paul Bradley csm70830 at port.ac.uk
Mon Nov 10 05:07:16 PST 1997




> >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.


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                            Paul Bradley 
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