Readit NewsDeeg9rie9usi commented on Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal unixv4.dev/... · Posted by u/pjmlp
I kept expecting an exploit :) Something to poke at on a slow evening, I guess, though with the buffer in static memory it might be difficult.
Exploiting this is close to trivial because the adjacent buffer contains the pw entry. So, you can control what the input is compared with.
That way the password check can be bypassed without injecting code.
Reading the source unearths interesting things:
https://sigma-star.at/blog/2025/12/unix-v4-buffer-overflow/
Deeg9rie9usi commented on Perl's decline was cultural beatworm.co.uk/blog/compu... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
While I don't code in perl myself, one modern tool I use a lot is written in perl: https://github.com/digint/btrbk
The founder and owner, Wolfgang Denk, sadly passed away in 2022. https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2022-October/497955.h...
Wolfgang was a great man. Beside of U-Boot his company was also deeply involved in the Linux real-time extension Xenomai:
https://lore.kernel.org/xenomai/87v8oa60bx.fsf@xenomai.org/
Deeg9rie9usi commented on Linux VM without VM software – User Mode Linux popovicu.com/posts/linux-... · Posted by u/arunc
In case you wonder how UML is currently used:
https://netdevconf.info/0x14/pub/slides/8/UML%20Time%20Trave...
It's testing. Using timetravel mode you can skip sleeps and speedup your unit tests massively.