[13638] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Nov 12 16:07:42 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:49:03 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.971112103812.5415A-100000@highlander.aa.ans.net>; from Michael McArthur <mcarthur@ans.net> on Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 10:42:30AM -0500
On Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 10:42:30AM -0500, Michael McArthur wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > I don't know about PentiumPro and Pentium II.
> >
> > The risk? Every pentium based server with user access for executing
> > programs can be crashed using this code sequence. Not to mention Trojan
> > Horses or Active-X controls.
>
> Does anybody know if this affects the Cyrix and AMD "Pentium
> Clone" chips?
I don't know that any tests have been announced yet, but I wouldn't
expect 1) for it to take long or 2) a positive result.
(IE: I think the other chips are probably not broken.)
Cheers,
-- jra
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