Re: Quite a spectacular security bug

On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:40:00 +0000, John Dallman wrote:

In article <1515942ce56ee0870311c9771eef4757@www.novabbs.org>,
mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) wrote:
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Given the Chinese, it might have been done on purpose.

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Maybe, but the freeze on reading from address 0 looks a lot more like
incompetent testing.
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Damnit, I work for an _application_ software provider, not a hardware or
OS supplier, but I have tests for my test harness which would catch
that.
A company that doesn't find that kind of flaw is thoroughly capable of
missing a memory management problem.

Missing something as easy as that makes one wonder about how much other
stuff testing missed ??

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John