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The History of a Security Hole (os2museum.com)
39 points by st_goliath 18 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


IOPB bit semantics are inverted from what you might expect: 0 means permitted, 1 means denied. So zeroed pcb memory silently grants access to every port in range -- that's why this was consistently reproducible, not flaky. One sizeof() away from correct the whole time.


(2018)




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