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Re: Penetration of HP/UX
From: michael getachew <michaelhoustong () yahoo com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:49:52 -0700 (PDT)
you are right, I was thinking of tru64 unix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64_Unix) . I have a copy of hp ux somewhere and I remember being unable to run it in a vm because the vm software i was using didn't support that architecture. I checked and it turns out there is something called HPPAQEMU that does it now (don't know if it's legal to run hp-ux in a vm or not though). Thanks for the clarification. Michael.
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
Exploits don't work for HP/UX as they dofor"normal" Linuxes/Unixes. This is because HP/UX (asfar as Iknow) mainly works on SPARC CPU's, thus having BigEndianinstructions which is different from standard x86- or am Iwrong?forgive me if I'm wrong but is't hp ux suppose to runon 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 bedifferent 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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