[89678] in Cypherpunks
Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neva Remailer)
Sun Nov 9 11:03:31 1997
Date: Saturday, 08 Nov 97 07:24:48 PST
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: nobody@neva.org (Neva Remailer)
Reply-To: nobody@neva.org (Neva Remailer)
Anonymous <anon@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?
