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Re: Serious hole in Solaris 2.5[.1] gethostbyname() (exploit


From: alan () lxorguk ukuu org uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:08:35 +0000


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



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