[3652] in bugtraq
Re: Serious hole in Solaris 2.5[.1] gethostbyname() (exploit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Nov 20 01:27:54 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:08:35 +0000
Reply-To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
X-To: r.street@auckland.ac.nz
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <199611190301.QAA12823@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz> from "Russell Street"
at Nov 19, 96 04:01:27 pm
> The exploit does not work on my 2.5.1 Ultra-1. Presumably this is
> just a matter of getting the machine code right for the platform. ;)
According to Dave Miller (Linux sparc guru) the I & D caches on the ultra
are not coherent, so you'll need to find a way to flush the I cache.
Alan
