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> I don’t care about DoS or crashes!

Be very, very concerned with any vulnerabilities that cause crashes. Someone may discover a way to control where the process points to, and now you have a way more serious issue.

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For else old folks it would be like WinNuke. Back in the day of dial up your entire PC was front and center on the internet. Windows 95 had a vulnerability that anyone could BSOD you. When it came out basically any IRC or multiplayer interaction you could get BSOD’d by any rando on the internet. I would be lying if I wasn’t occasionally on the sending end of these at the ripe old age of 12.

It could get much worse than a BSOD. Also from this era:

http://bash.org/?117002

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