alt.hn

2/22/2026 at 12:59:59 AM

The History of a Security Hole

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-history-of-a-security-hole/

by st_goliath

2/22/2026 at 1:07:26 AM

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.

by amabito