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Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc

  • From: Sharif Torpis
  • Date: Wed Nov 12 14:36:58 1997 
> Why is that a problem? Unless somebody could execute the code on the
> boxthen it is not a threat - closed systems, like WWW servers (most
> servers like
> that really) should not be in any danger.

Two words: buffer overflow. You don't always have to have a shell to execute
code on a closed system. What is a "closed system" anyway? Is that like
"computer security"? ;-)