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IDIV DoS (INT_MIN / -1)
A little fun for the last day of 2012: how to crash a program via division? x86’s IDIV instruction traps not only on division by zero, but also on INT_MIN / -1 (signed integer overflow).
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On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 2013 | IDIV DoS (INT_MIN / -1) by alter8 | 111 | 23 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 6 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Mar 2013 to Aug 2022.
Most recent:
- cesarb · Aug 23, 2022
- cesarb · Jan 2, 2022
- ridiculous_fish · Jan 2, 2022
- ridiculous_fish · Aug 2, 2015
- ridiculous_fish · Aug 1, 2015
- Dylan16807 · Mar 14, 2013
