[Info-vax] How dangerous is it to be able to get into DCL supervisor mode ?

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Wed Jul 5 09:28:12 EDT 2017


On 2017-07-05, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
> Correct. You generally need to be able to cause a crash in the
> first place to be able to use this kind of approach. The question
> then becomes if the environment can be changed in a way which allows
> you to be able to control the crash in such a way as to allow your
> shellcode to run by the failing image (in this case DCL itself).
>

Sorry. That should say "to be run", not "to run".

Simon.

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