From:	iverson AT cisco DOT com (Tim Iverson)
Subject:	Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
7 Nov 1997 21:08:52 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<199711080455.UAA21222.cygnus.gnu-win32@stars.cisco.com>
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Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Just to keep everyone from getting too scared, this really would only matter
for secure sites with multiple users -- that particular sequence is a
nonsense instruction.  The only folks using it would be those deliberately
wanting to bring the system down.

 Here it is decoded: lock cmpxchg8b eax

BTW, I haven't tested it, so I don't know if this is even true.  It should
generate an illegal instruction exception, since the operand needs to be a
memory reference.


- Tim Iverson
  iverson AT lionheart-com


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| Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 21:54:23 -0500
| From: Anonymous <anon AT anon DOT efga DOT org>
| Subject: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
| To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
| 
| code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no 
| char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 };
....
| This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with
| average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works.
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