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stalld: unpatched fixed temporary file use and other issues

https://security.opensuse.org/2024/11/29/stalld-fixed-tmp-file.html

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@hajovonta @amszmidt I can mess up the same thing multiple times a day...
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Linux: Race can lead to UAF in net/bluetooth/sco.c: sco_sock_connect()

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2024/q4/130

What a mess:

“the reporter also did not reply to any of linux-distros’ members questions, most notably ‘have you contacted either security () kernel org or the bluetooth maintainers about this issue?’”

“the issue may be the same as CVE-2024-27398”

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tuned: local root exploit in D-Bus method instance_create and other issues in tuned >= 2.23 (CVE-2024-52336, CVE-2024-52337)

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2024/q4/127

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@timb_machine Glad to hear that :) On my side that rendered as a very sad little blob.
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⛧ SLEIGHER ⛧

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NEW: The phones of the new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (including a hotline with the White House):
https://www.electrospaces.net/2024/12/the-phones-of-new-nato-secretary.html

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@jann @freddy I've heard that bug bounty submissions definitely correlate with the summer break
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@todb @zmanion Based on the post I'm afraid including error detection in new ID's would cause a Hell of a mess at the consumers side :(
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The Archive has definitely hit the phase of "it works unless it doesn't, and then it will suddenly work". This is where the urge to just throw open what's left just to drop bug reports or complaints is high, but you just need to keep tracking things down. This was a quarter century codebase! It's beyond amazing it got this far, this fast. But every time I go back to work at my interfaces, the team has made them run better and better.

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This was my tenth(!) year building 25 days of puzzles for . You can solve them all for free! Most people write code to solve them, but you can solve them however you like. I hope they help people become better programmers. 🌟

The first puzzle comes out in two hours: https://adventofcode.com/

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The 2024 Economist Word of the Year:

“kakistocracy” - Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.

https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/11/29/the-economists-word-of-the-year-for-2024

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This is a #test of frequency instruments.

Bass

Drums

Distortion

Artifacts

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@cynicalsecurity Thanks I'll look that up!
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@brewsterkahle Sorry, not a native speaker here! What I mean (half-jokingly) is these days we - as in users and developers - just accept that our software is bad. We create higher layers of abstractions so ppl with minimal training can produce more sw, because we always need more sw somehow. Then ofc the abstractions leak, and the design doesn't make sense and UX is horrible. Then - if the lawyers and salesppl were smart enough - the producer can charge even more money for the fixes. And the buyers don't have alternatives and they just accept their faith because sw has always been buggy. And this is how you boil a frog.
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@astralia @pancake @joxean @radareorg I like the warm fuzzy feeling of running NSA code (financed by US taxpayers) on my machine :)
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@cynicalsecurity I think "some form of NFS" deserves some focus. I haven't thought about this but seen enough NFS induced vulns to say NFS probably won't be it. You ruled out SMB. What are the alternatives?

(We have some nice setups with MinIO, but wrapping everything with HTTP doesn't feel right either)
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After my recent experience with a new laptop, imposed upon me by a client, I feel the need to describe what I’d want from computing, both as a “practitioner” (“shaman”? “fool”?) and as a user.

First and foremost I like to know where my data is, both physically and logically.

I would, therefore, appreciate having some form of storage server which does everything from storing files to my calendar and email. It would be redundant, etc. (i.e. a NAS of some form).

Secondly, we’d have IPv6 so that I could reach said server from everywhere without NAT, CGNAT, transparent carrier-to-carrier NAT (you don’t want to know), etc.

Then, for those who have computing needs, we would have a co-system we would connect next to the NAS, automatically speaking some form of NFS (no, not SMB, not over my dead body) and which would be used automatically by the NAS when a request needed oomph (e.g. video editing on a stored video).

All of this would be topped with a beautiful “portable viewer” which would have a laptop size / format and would do nothing other than connect over the network to your server and allow you to “do things.”

A mobile phone would, similarly, tap into your server to do what it needs to do.

There would be minimal storage on these edge devices.

Wait, you say, this is “The Cloud”.

No, it is absolutely not because I want the data to be mine and nothing to be on the edge devices.

Wait, you say again, this is “Plan 9 meets VNC (in its original Olivetti Research Labs incarnation)”.

Yes, it is.

I still believe that one of the worst ever decisions to be taken was the PC back in 1981 followed by the obtusity of many in thinking that somehow PC “democratised” computing or could replace mainframes, minis and servers with its architecture.

Quoting “The 6M Dollar Man”: We can rebuild him; we have the technology.

We don’t need to continue using the crap they peddle us, we need to sit down and say “OK, now let’s be grown ups and build what we need, not what others want to us to build.” (note: 0xide is a step in that direction)

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