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Subject: Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63))
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From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
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> code is designed to be easily decoded forward, noone executes code going
> backwards. Finding out what starts at EIP is easy.

I remember reading once in a magazine that there exists an
undocumented/illegal instruction in the x86 which causes the IP to run
backwards, similar to setting the D flag.

Was an April 1st issue though ;-)

Olaf

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