I believe the word "shell" has been used because local access (having a shell account) is needed to be able to trigger the DoS attack.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fargusson.Alan Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Kernel Crash from shell bug I don't see anything about the shell in this report. It looks like it is purely a bug in the handling of the TS bit in the FPU on Intel processors. -----Original Message----- From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Kernal Crash from shell bug is this: http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html an issue for z/Linux? The trusecure bulletin describes it as only an intel problem, but I want to assure our management that z/linux is still free and clear. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
