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Re:A single byte write opened a root execution exploit on Saturday October 15, 2016 @03:04PM (#12715234)
"it's rather trivial"? Have you done it?
Re:A single byte write opened a root execution exploit on Saturday October 15, 2016 @02:59PM (#12715213)
It's pretty hard with strcmp. On modern x86_64 strcmp is vectorised and the first N bytes are compared simultaneously.

I have code samples + remote exploit code against nonvectorised strcmp; I can write this up if anyone thinks it would be helpful.

I tried to get nrepl to accept http requests once and I couldn't make it validate anything. (But of course I'd love to see someone manage to do it...)
I don't think this is the same vulnerability. You don't even need to rebind DNS to do it, I believe: just make an XmlHTTPRequest. Your GET is considered code. The browser will get back a request that doesn't have a cors header and so not let you read it, but your code still executes. So there's no reason to be on the same origin, so DNS rebinding is unnecessary
It's not only a DNS rebind attack. I'm pretty sure in this case even a GET could get rce , so you don't even need to check the cors headers. You can just XHR.
That could be nice. So, now the browser needs to understand routing tables?
Re:Show HN: Ascii to SVG on Sunday October 02, 2016 @04:12PM (#12623998)
Emacs has this: org mode and Dita.
Re:Using Gmail with Mutt on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:10PM (#12567586)
Do you browse to html files on your attachment server? That's a pretty bad idea security-wise
Re:Hardware hack defeats iPhone 5C passcode security on Monday September 19, 2016 @07:18PM (#12535581)
Some portion of the work could be comstant-time.
Re:If your code accepts URIs as input, filter out “file://” on Monday September 12, 2016 @03:27PM (#12482866)
Importantly, fetching DNS twice (once to check, another to download) is an incomplete solution, since DNS responses can change (cf "DNS rebinding").
Re:Movfuscator – A single-instruction C compiler on Saturday August 27, 2016 @11:07PM (#12375127)
How does it get past aslr? You still need to find addresses of the movs, don't you?
On iPhone, user-mode exploits remain sandboxed. On Android, on rooted devices, user mode code tends to be able to get root.
Re:The Internet of Poorly Working Things on Monday August 22, 2016 @01:03AM (#12334216)
fwiw, stateless light switches are nice in that you can have many light switches controlling the same light. Not saying they're perfect but they have advantages.
I can't believe New Jersey would let someone brazenly advertise religiously-motivated cannibalism.
Re:Hask is not a category on Saturday August 06, 2016 @09:22PM (#12240641)
"undefined" isn't the problem here, seq is.