Re: Penetration of HP/UX

[Roland Kessler <rokessler () gmx net>]

Hi there,

HP-UX runs on PA-RISC and IA-64, Solaris on SPARC, IA-32 and x86-64
processors. HP-UX is pure big-endian, while Solaris is only big-endian
on SPARC.

Cheers,
Roland


Am 19.06.11 06:59, schrieb michael getachew:
> > > > 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?
>
> forgive me if I'm wrong but is't hp ux suppose to run on alpha architecture or something like that? i thought sparc 
> was mainly for solaris/opensolaris.
>
> also,I get how the shellcodes and all that has to be different but i still fail to understand how a buffer overflow 
> would work on one architecture and fail on another.i am always baffled when i hear a  certain vuln/exploit is only on 
> x86 or x86_64. I'm sure there is an explanation to this i just don't know it yet so please enlighten me on the this 
> subject.
>
> Cheers :)
>
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