Some of you have probably already seen this. The rest of you should. TL ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ZombieMan <list@ZOMBIE.NWS.NET> To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 03:10:29 +0000 Subject: WARNING: Linux Intel Pentium Bug This Program was distributed in the newsgroups and on irc so i thought i would post it here.... (prog attached) >From root@zombie.nws.net Fri Nov 7 03:05:43 1997 Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 03:04:25 +0000 From: "root of all evil (ZombieMan)" <root@zombie.nws.net> To: root@zombie Subject: [Fwd: This code will lock up any P5 machine, even usermode Linux! (F0 0F C7 C8)] [ Part 2: "Included Message" ] Date: 6 Nov 1997 21:53:13 -0800 From: Tim Smith <tzs@halcyon.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: This code will lock up any P5 machine, even usermode Linux! (F0 0F C7 C8) [Added comp.sys.intel] In article <3462ADCD.135B@noname.com>, <noname@noname.com> wrote: > Check this out. If you execute F0 0F C7 C8 on a P5 it will lock the >machine up. This is true for any operating system including usermode >Linux. It's pretty cool. Basically, the opcodes are an invalid form of >cmpxchg8b eax with a lock prefix. Has anyone seen this before? The >problem doesn't show itself for the Pentium Pro or Pentium 2. Cool. It also works (sic) from V86 mode, so if you want to play around, just use DOS debug under whatever DOS emulator the OS you are using provides. Anyone try it on a Pentium MMX? --Tim Smith >From root@zombie.nws.net Fri Nov 7 03:05:48 1997 Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 03:04:41 +0000 From: "root of all evil (ZombieMan)" <root@zombie.nws.net> To: root@zombie Subject: [Fwd: This code will lock up any P5 machine, even usermode Linux! (F0 0F C7 C8)] [ Part 2: "Included Message" ] Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 21:57:33 -0800 From: noname@noname.com Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: This code will lock up any P5 machine, even usermode Linux! (F0 0F C7 C8) Hi, Check this out. If you execute F0 0F C7 C8 on a P5 it will lock the machine up. This is true for any operating system including usermode Linux. It's pretty cool. Basically, the opcodes are an invalid form of cmpxchg8b eax with a lock prefix. Has anyone seen this before? The problem doesn't show itself for the Pentium Pro or Pentium 2. >From root@zombie.nws.net Fri Nov 7 03:05:53 1997 Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 03:04:57 +0000 From: "root of all evil (ZombieMan)" <root@zombie.nws.net> To: root@zombie Subject: [Fwd: F0 0F C7 C8 looks worse than FPIV] [ Part 2: "Included Message" ] Date: 7 Nov 1997 07:17:44 GMT From: Sam Trenholme <set-usenet-878887265@reality.samiam.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.intel Subject: F0 0F C7 C8 looks worse than FPIV >Cool. It also works (sic) from V86 mode, so if you want to play around, just >use DOS debug under whatever DOS emulator the OS you are using provides. >Anyone try it on a Pentium MMX? This bug looks far worse that FPIV. Intel will probably be forced to undergo an expensive recall, although I wonder just how Intel plans on getting the broken Pentium on my IBM thinkpad fixed. I like to let co-workers access my machine when it is hooked up to the network at work, and will have to now severely restrict any such access. - Sam
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