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[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

the in depth technical details

TL;DR; sigalarm handler calls syslog which isn't safe to call from a signal handler context.

Their example exploit needed about 10k attempts to get a remote shell so it's not fast or quiet, but a neat find regardless

[-] bitfucker@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

I can already imagine the log generated will be a hint. We usually automate those anyway as it is closer to (D)DoS too.

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