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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by conradev on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:15PM (#21709930)
In a world where we harden all of the things and write code in memory safe languages maybe memory corruption will be the old school vulnerability and this type of thing will be all that is left
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by anthk on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:09AM (#21710133)
Ever heard of retguard? This is not an exploiting bug, this is a parsing bug. It could happen with Rust too.
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by ben_bai on Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:32AM (#21712090)
Which is exactly what he wrote.
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by saagarjha on Thursday December 05, 2019 @06:33AM (#21711563)
Why is retguard relevant here?
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by ben_bai on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:28PM (#21716761)
Yep, there will always be parsing bugs like not sanitizing input, logic failures, weak algorithms, timing attacks, ...
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