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Has anyone checked if macOS is vulnerable to regreSSHion (Qualys's OpenSSH SIGALRM vulnerability, CVE-2024-6387)?

Qualys's writeup notes that glibc is vulnerable because its malloc skips locking on single threaded programs
(https://www.qualys.com/2024/07/01/cve-2024-6387/regresshion.txt),

macOS doesn't have this optimization: malloc always seems to take locks, and will crash in `os_unfair_lock_recursive_abort` if you try to call it during an interrupted call.

So Qualys's initial exploit strategy probably won't work.

macOS's syslog is complex, however; it has several files (https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/syslog/tree/main/libsystem_asl.tproj/src) that uses malloc, Mach messaging, libdispatch, XPC, ObjC... would there be something non-re-entrant-safe there? If so, would the lock aborts prevent you from exploiting them?
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This is a problem domain where the constraints and effects are pretty much entirely comprehensible in terms of known physical models. Any suboptimal behavior is entirely a matter of nobody having spent the time to apply known models. But sure, let's instead spend the time hooking up ML, CV to evaluate results, and waste tons (literally) of plastic training a model to learn a poor approximation of what we already know.

But this is a general pattern that's terrifying...

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== Let's make a magnetophone / tape player / magnetic tape head at home! ==

Many people started following me after my DIY magnetic tape and DIY floppy disk experiments. A common request ever since was to make a DIY magnetic head, and, truth to be told, I was curious to experiment with it, too.

The task was daunting, and many people were convinced that it could not be done at all. In fact, I could not find a single mention of a successful experiment in the West, and scarce mentions of it in vintage Russian radio hobbyist magazines. But I know that it could be done; my father says he made some magnetic heads over 40 years ago.

Just two weeks ago Hackaday.com made a post claiming that a (really cool btw) hobbyist made a tape player with a DIY tape head. I was excited at first, and then outraged - it was fake news! The DIY tape head was not (and could not be) used in the tape player on the video, and in fact could only erase tape.

Now, I present you The Real DIY Magnetic/Tape Head (and a DIY microphone)

🧵~

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did you know that intel shipped a userspace driver that does kernel physical memory grooming (like heap grooming, but for physmem allocations) to get a contiguous memory block https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c

like... allocates a bunch of pages, checks if they're physically contiguous, frees the ones that are not, and retries it has enough that are, more or less

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Ok, finally! Here wo go: on via .

Here, we have a basic image running which will be soon shared as a raw image (including instructions how to run it w/o patched and also trying to provide a image.


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🦀 The slides for my workshop at @recon in Montreal this year, "Reversing Rust Binaries: One Step Beyond Strings", are now online!

https://github.com/cxiao/rust-reversing-workshop-recon-2024/tree/main/slides

You can find both the slides and the diagrams I used for the workshop linked there. The slides are meant to be a resource for you to use while reversing, so they have lots of clickable links in them (:

In case you lose the link, you can also find the slides linked from my page on the REcon 2024 schedule: https://cfp.recon.cx/recon2024/talk/QCA37X/

Really great to meet so many cool people, and lots of work to do for Rust RE going forward! I left the conference with a lot of great ideas and directions for new research.

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use-after-free vulnerability due to the interaction between Unix garbage collection (GC) and the io_uring Linux kernel component

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/unix-garbage-collection-and-iouring

Credits Shoily Rahman

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"Saved

MTV News Is Back (Kind Of) Thanks to the Internet Archive

After Paramount Global yanked over 20 years of music journalism, the non-profit Internet Archive created a searchable index of MTV News via its Wayback Machine"

rolling stone.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mtv-news-saved-internet-archive-1235051776/

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Unpatched RCE Vulnerabilities in Gogs: Argument Injection in the Built-In SSH Server https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-unpatched-code-vulnerabilities-in-gogs-1/

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Just released oletools 0.60.2: this is mostly a bugfix release, to address some dependency issues and compatibility with Python 3.12.
More details: https://github.com/decalage2/oletools/releases/tag/v0.60.2
How to upgrade:
pip install -U oletools
or:
pipx install oletools

Another release with new features should come soon!

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@florian “Let me be very clear - this decision is simply unacceptable, undermines
IETF's mission, and calls the management's competence into question.” Well said, +1 .

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found the problem

stupid fox walked all over my boards neofox_floof_mug_sip_and_glare

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We are planning to release new Mastodon security updates for versions 4.1, 4.2 and nightly this Thursday, Jul 04, at 15:00 UTC. It solves multiple security issues, including a major one. We encourage server administrators to plan for a timely upgrade to ensure their Mastodon server is protected.

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