On Aug 23, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Réczey Bálint <rbal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> FreeBSD has a different implementation AFAIK The first implementation was the WinPcap one, for x86-32 or IA-32 or whatever you want to call the 32-bit version of x86. The FreeBSD people picked that one up, added x86-64 support, and, if I remember, didn't bother to cite the WinPcap folks (Loris Degioanni was a bit annoyed at that, as I remember). Both have BSDish licenses, which probably got in the way of adopting them for Linux, so I suspect the Linux implementation is independent (just as its implementation of the BPF interpreter is different). > and covers fewer architectures. Linux's JIT also handles PPC, although, as POWER/PowerPC/Power ISA has fixed-length instructions, it's apparently not vulnerable to the attack mentioned in the post Jakub cited. If they decided to support S/3x0-64^Wz/Architecture, that *would* be vulnerable (as would 68k and VAX, among others). ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
