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To: StockMan who wrote (39998)	11/11/1997 2:21:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) of 186894

An unbiased view of the Intel F0 bug from "Wired": wired.com "If someone just has FTP access to an account and they can put programs up and execute them as CGI programs on a Web server, you can put this program up," said Stefan Hudson, senior network administrator at Monterey Bay Internet. "All it needs to do is run and it takes down the whole machine." "Many ISPs use Pentium servers running Linux to serve Web pages. The bug applies to just about every Pentium platform, but it really only affects people that are running computers where you would have people running code on a computer that aren't really trusted," said Hudson. "In an ISP situation, you could have Joe from anywhere. If they get pissed off at you, they are going to do whatever they can," said Hudson. "This bug looks far worse that FPIV [Pentium's notorious floating point bug of some years ago]" said Sam Trenholme, a developer on the BugTraq list. "Intel will probably be forced to undergo an expensive recall." Petz

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