From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ESP corruption bug - what CPUs are affected?
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:19:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040921111900.GA7515@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414C14CD.7030200@aknet.ru>
Hi!
> >for subsequent push/pop/call/ret operations.
> >But if code uses full ESP, thinking that upper 16 bits are zero,
> >it will crash badly. Correct me if I'm wrong.
> That's correct. But you should note that the
> program not just "thinks" that the upper 16 bits
> are zero. It writes zero there itself, and a few
> instructions later - oops, it is no longer zero...
Hmm, perhaps this can also be viewed as a "information leak"? Program
running under dosemu is not expected to know high bits of kernel
%esp...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-21 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-16 17:49 Stas Sergeev
2004-09-16 19:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-09-17 18:13 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-17 22:04 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-09-18 10:58 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-18 13:08 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-09-18 17:05 ` Stas Sergeev
[not found] ` <200409190108.45641.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-09-22 19:05 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-21 11:19 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-09-21 11:43 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-09-16 18:39 Petr Vandrovec
2004-09-17 18:12 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-18 16:45 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-18 16:59 ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-09-18 19:14 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-18 20:35 ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-09-22 18:49 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-22 19:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-09-22 20:03 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-22 20:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-09-28 15:43 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-09-22 20:02 ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-09-23 4:09 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-23 17:08 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-23 18:06 ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-09-24 20:36 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-24 21:43 ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-09-25 8:04 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-09-25 12:25 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-25 19:18 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-09-25 20:40 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-25 23:42 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-09-26 18:04 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-09-27 9:07 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-09-30 15:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-06 17:18 ESP corruption bug - what CPUs are affected? (patch att Petr Vandrovec
2004-10-11 18:32 ` ESP corruption bug - what CPUs are affected? Stas Sergeev
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