[5688] in bugtraq
Re: Intel Pentium Bug on System V
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John W. Temples)
Mon Nov 24 23:35:03 1997
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:06:30 +0300
Reply-To: "John W. Temples" <john@KUWAIT.NET>
From: "John W. Temples" <john@KUWAIT.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199711220049.TAA05024@netspace.org>
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, AnthonyX Eufemio wrote:
> In order for the exploit to work on most SystemV systems running on P5
> x86 you have to do a sync system call first then execute the lock code.
> I have tested it on SCO UnixWare 1.x, 2.x, and SCO OpenServer 5.x and it
> will NOT work if you don't do a sync syscall first.
I tried it on two different OpenServer 5.0.4 systems, and both locked
without doing a sync.
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