From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20428 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2004 20:23:58 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 18 Jan 2004 20:23:58 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AiJSg-0001tc-4c for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:23:58 +0000 Received: (qmail 10257 invoked by uid 50004); 18 Jan 2004 20:23:57 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29190 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2004 20:23:57 +0000 Message-ID: <400AEBD0.2040106@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 15:25:52 -0500 From: Kumba Reply-To: kumba@gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20040118043511.GA3727@linguo.lan.seiler.us> <20040118105447.752dc3d2@intrepid.weeve.org> <20040118184936.GA22747@linguo.lan.seiler.us> In-Reply-To: <20040118184936.GA22747@linguo.lan.seiler.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gaim-0.75-r5 stable push X-Archives-Salt: f5ccafe4-ff95-439a-a363-383a148936e2 X-Archives-Hash: 5142afbd4f401b25ebd39f6a53f65b72 Don Seiler wrote: > I was told by the gaim developers that the bug hits big-endian systems > "harder" than x86 systems. > > So this doesn't mean that all big-endian systems WILL fail, so my > absolute working earlier was incorrect. > > And a huzzah for sparc64. > > Don. I've had reports of it locking up an Indy when logging into Yahoo. SGI mips machines are big-endian, btw. I also found this bug, and I wonder if the two are connected: Bugzilla Bug 37919 net-im/gaim-0.75-r1 reports stack smashing attack when connecting to Yahoo Maybe what we are seeing is a stack-smash attack taking out big-endian machines? (well, most anyways). --Kumba -- "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list