Re: Linux Buffer Overflow Security Exploits

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:01:33 +0000


On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:11:08PM +0200, Tuomas Heino wrote:

> Still I think this brain-damage has already been implemented somewhere...
> maybe even at the brain-damage center at redmond ;)
> ... and it definitely was implemented for 32-bit memory addressing on
> 16-bit cpus ;)

I guess it depends /which/ 16bit CPUs. 68000 was technically a 16bit CPU,
but it had 24 address bits (tho' only _23_ address lines, but that's different
brain damage :) Actually, didn't it have 32 bit wide data registers? Maybe it
wasn't a 16bit CPU after all..

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