So
after 14 months(?) of work
and a lot of frustration
barely knowing what i was doing
i think i made someting special (!)
presenting:
a Wine fork
for Ableton Live 12
on Linux
stable
pixel perfect
vst support
1st class gnome citizen
device hotwire support
low latency audio
tell ur friends π₯Ήπ₯Ή
Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator - https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/avalanche/
Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
Meta faces $1.4 trillion in damages for hooking kids on purpose. The company's market cap is $1.5 trillion. They're arguing the number is unprecedented in consumer protection history, which is technically true. It's also the first time anyone built a $1 trillion business on deliberately addicting children.
https://gizmodo.com/metas-teen-safety-case-just-became-a-1-4-trillion-existential-threat-2000782306
If you're just now hearing about GhostLock and looking to fix it, make sure you don't introduce two unpriv-reachable DoSes associated with its fixes. The fix the Linux CNA lists for CVE-2026-43499 introduces a NULL deref, which caused CVE-2026-53166 to be issued. Unfortunately...
https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/213560
The web server binary
/bin/httpdcontains an undocumented backdoor authentication mechanism in thelogin()function. Initially, the function follows a normal authentication path using MD5-based password verification. However, if authentication fails, the function invokesGetValue("sys.rzadmin.password")to retrieve an alternate password value from the device configuration. It then performs a directstrcmp()comparison in plaintext between the user-supplied password and the configuration-stored value. A successful match grantsrole=2admin-level access and creates a valid session.The associated username is not validated, so any provided username will succeed when paired with the backdoor password. This backdoor authentication mechanism is not documented or visible through any administrative interface.
@nyanbinary @cR0w
OK, after a little digging, there are indeed some Tenda firmwares that contain the rzadmin backdoor account in httpd. The problem? Out of the firmware versions that CERT lists, none of them contain this backdoor. Oops. π
For example if we look at the httpd from a Tenda G300, we can indeed see a login() function with a GetValue("sys.rzadmin.password") and a subsequent strcmp() to compare.
Maybe I'm simply being pedantic, but I think that when an organization publishes about a vulnerability and creates a CVE for it, the affected products should perhaps be accurate? π€·ββοΈ