• lurklurk@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    the 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

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      4 months ago

      I can already imagine the log generated will be a hint. We usually automate those anyway as it is closer to (D)DoS too.