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  3. November 2002

RE: What's the difference?

This has always bothered me.  Couldn't a piece of malware purposely wreak
havoc by doing exactly this?

"Beyond thys place there be Dragons"


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-------Original Message-------

From: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Date: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:52:35 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: What's the difference?

...
I say Bad Things, because you may have a stale pointer left on the stack,
and NOT get a MCH3601, but some other unpredictable failure as the called
code works on some other part of memory it doesn't own.
.....
--buck

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