Re: ESP corruption bug - what CPUs are affected?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 14:19, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > >for subsequent push/pop/call/ret operations.
> > >But if code uses full ESP, thinking that upper 16 bits are zero,
> > >it will crash badly. Correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
> > That's correct. But you should note that the
> > program not just "thinks" that the upper 16 bits
> > are zero. It writes zero there itself, and a few
> > instructions later - oops, it is no longer zero...
> 
> Hmm, perhaps this can also be viewed as a "information leak"? Program
> running under dosemu is not expected to know high bits of kernel
> %esp...

Yes.

I must admit that Stas was right and I was wrong.
This is a 386 CPU bug.

Since then it seems to be codified in i86 architecture
and duplicated in all successors.
Incredible... :(
--
vda

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