Re: Penetration of HP/UX

[Abuse 007 <abuse007 () gmail com>]

Endianess is based on CPU architecture not OS.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Nur Agus <nuragus.linux () gmail com> wrote:
> On Jun 8, 2011, at 14:30, Philipp Lachberger <ph_lachi () yahoo de> wrote:
>
> > Exploits don't work for HP/UX as they do for "normal" Linuxes/Unixes. This is because HP/UX (as far as I know) 
> > mainly works on SPARC CPU's, thus having Big Endian instructions which is different from standard x86 - or am I 
> > wrong?
>
> Hi Phillip,
>
> I have never done UX specific security audiy before, but yes I have been using my favorite port scanner and tools.
>
> UX is based on PA-RISC and IA64 Itanium, though PA-RISC has reached its end of sales last year I think.
>
> UX have different endian from Linux. It's endian is same with other UNIXes such as AIX and SOLARIS.
>
> Thanks
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