lurklurk@lemmy.worldtoLinux@programming.dev•'Critical' vulnerability in OpenSSH uncovered, affects almost all Linux systems
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3 months agothe in depth technical details
TL;DR; sigalarm handler calls syslog which isn’t safe to call from a signal handler context.
Their example exploit needed about 10k attempts to get a remote shell so it’s not fast or quiet, but a neat find regardless
If American showers allowed adjustment of both pressure and temperature like most modern European ones, you wouldn’t have this issue