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The 25 Year Old BSD Bug
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| 1983. The year of the IBM PC XT, the Apple Lisa, Pioneer 10 leaving the solar
| system, and Hooters opening up shop in Florida. It's also the birthyear of a
| 25 year old BSD bug, squashed only a few days ago.
|
| A few days ago, Marc Balmer, OpenBSD developer, received an email from an
| OpenBSD user. The email claimed that SAMBA would crash when serving files off
| an MS-DOS filesystem. Balmer got into contact with a few SAMBA developers who
| claimed that SAMBA uses a special workaround in order to function properly on
| BSD systems: the code for reading directories in all BSDs was flawed.
|
| Understandably, Balmer's first reaction was disbelief. "Of course my first
| reaction was to blame Samba," he writes. Despite his initial reaction, he
| decided to dig deeper into this case, and he uncovered a bug that had been
| sitting in the code of all BSDs (including Mac OS X), including a lot of old
| releases. He confirmed the bug was already in 4.2BSD, released in August of
| 1983.
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http://www.newmobilecomputing.com/story/19731/The_25_Year_Old_BSD_Bug
That's fairly benign compared to Windows bugs (recent examples below).
Related:
Microsoft admits big delay on Home Server bug fix
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| Microsoft has admitted that it will not deliver a fix to a Windows Home
| Server data corruption bug it first discovered late last year until June at
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| the earliest.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/11/microsoft_windows_home_server_bug/
Microsoft shipped OneCare unfinished?
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| Since shipping in May, OneCare has failed industry tests and exposed
| users to attack because of a security flaw in the antivirus engine.
| The application also incorrectly flagged Gmail as a virus and in some
| cases quarantined or even deleted complete in-boxes when a single
| e-mail was laden with a virus.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6168629.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
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