Endianess is based on CPU architecture not OS.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Nur Agus <nuragus.linux (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
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> On Jun 8, 2011, at 14:30, Philipp Lachberger <ph_lachi (at) yahoo (dot) de [email concealed]> wrote:
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>> Exploits don't work for HP/UX as they do for "normal" Linuxes/Unixes. This is because HP/UX (as far as I know) mainly works on SPARC CPU's, thus having Big Endian instructions which is different from standard x86 - or am I wrong?
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> Hi Phillip,
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> I have never done UX specific security audiy before, but yes I have been using my favorite port scanner and tools.
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> UX is based on PA-RISC and IA64 Itanium, though PA-RISC has reached its end of sales last year I think.
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> UX have different endian from Linux. It's endian is same with other UNIXes such as AIX and SOLARIS.
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> Thanks
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