Urgent/11 – Zero Day Vulnerabilities Impacting VxWorks

Re:Urgent/11 – Zero Day Vulnerabilities Impacting VxWorks by cesarb on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @07:26PM (#20691267)

Everything old is new again: "WinNuke is an example of a Nuke remote denial-of-service attack (DoS) that affected the Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows NT and Microsoft Windows 3.1x computer operating systems. The exploit sent a string of out-of-band data (OOB data) to the target computer on TCP port 139 (NetBIOS), [...]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke

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Re:Urgent/11 – Zero Day Vulnerabilities Impacting VxWorks by dundercoder on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @11:15PM (#20692450)

We used to win nuke the computer labs in high school after playing the first 15 seconds of blur song2. It got to the point where just playing the song would cause Ethernet dongles across the room to get ripped right out of laptops. Ahh the old days.

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Re:Urgent/11 – Zero Day Vulnerabilities Impacting VxWorks by caf on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @08:53PM (#20691765)

That's what I was thinking when I read "Four memory corruption vulnerabilities stemming from erroneous handling of TCP’s Urgent Pointer field" - the hardline on your desk is ringing, and the caller ID says 1996.

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Re:Urgent/11 – Zero Day Vulnerabilities Impacting VxWorks by BubRoss on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @08:12PM (#20691529)

That's how I would free up my friend's phone lines when I wanted to call them.

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