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Re:CVE-2024-54471: Leaking Passwords (and More!) on macOS by pixl97 on Thursday March 20, 2025 @04:14PM (#43428349)
I remember using Novell netware in high school and if you random long lengths of passwords you could get the machine to crash. Didn't have any idea what was going on at the time.

After highschool I saw an exploit for this where if you typed the right magic characters in you could highjack the execution of the login prompt and get a shell.

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Re:CVE-2024-54471: Leaking Passwords (and More!) on macOS by junon on Saturday March 22, 2025 @06:13AM (#43444695)
Novell was really bad at locking down machines lol. It was namely susceptible to the windows XP `at.exe cmd.exe` root shell bypass.

Got in trouble a few times during school years doing that.

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