[Info-vax] A DCL wish list of sorts...

[pcanagnostopoulos at gmail.com]

On Friday, March 22, 2019 at 12:24:33 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
> > Question: How does someone interject arbitrary instructions into the 
> > DCL table? I don't think the CDU supports hex escapes in strings. 
> > Perhaps that has been added.
> 
> This wasn't in DCL itself.  This was a corruption that allowed data to 
> be written into a memory location that altered program execution flow 
> within CDU, and which then allowed Simon to inject instructions into 
> the processing.

But the CDU didn't run with any elevated privilege. Oh, you mean he could inject instructions that ended up in the command table and then snuck past DCL. Marvelously obscure.

~~ Paul