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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by quacj on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:06PM (#16074084)
Do you have a proof of concept you can share for this type of attack?

I don't quite see how an attacker would take advantage of this is a real-world scenario.

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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by crb002 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:35PM (#16074286)
Yes, John Deere tractor running Windriver Linux; heavy use of dbus and Qt. Any compromised tractor app vendor could inject it.

Could probably reproduce from upstream Yocto distro and the free version of Qt.

Much larger attack surfaces to worry about like their craptastic security around USBs that farmers stick in to read maps.

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