Linked by David Adams on Fri 11th Jul 2008 01:55 UTC, submitted by ohxten
An ancient (at least 33 years old) stack-overflow bug has been discovered and fixed in yacc, thanks to a new malloc() implementation by Otto Moerbeek. More info and a complete description of the bug can be found here.
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2005-07-12
A pre-historic bug, at least with 4500 years was found in the Great Pyramid of Giza. The issue involves the security mechanism of opening a Stargate from another universe.
It's in current analysis if this behaviour was due to another change in the OpenBSD kernel code or if it was present all the time. If so, it's OpenBSD fault for planet Earth been invaded by aliens.