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Gareth Corfield
Tue 11 May 2021 // 09:15 UTC
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A computer science professor from Sweden has discovered an arbitrary code execution vuln in the Universal Turing Machine, one of the earliest computer designs in history – though he admits it has "no real-world implications".
In a paper published on academic repository ArXiv, Pontus Johnson, a professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, cheerfully explained that his findings wouldn't be exploitable in a real-world scenario because it pertained specifically to the 1967 implementation [PDF] of the simulated Universal Turing Machine (UTM) designed by the late Marvin Minsky, who co-founded the academic discipline of artificial intelligence.