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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 19, 2008 4:38 UTC (Mon) by donwaugaman (subscriber, #4214)
In reply to: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems by lysse
Parent article: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

On a segmented architecture, load an invalid descriptor into a segment register.  Boom!  Not
on all architectures, of course - I think the 386 family would be safe with this until you
tried to access the segment - but some machines would generate an exception on the load.


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