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stevekemp on Jan 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Best of show – abuse of libc

Very much so, it took a long time for this to become obvious as a security problem.

My memory wuftpd was the first big program to suffer from this class of attacks.

segfaultbuserr on Jan 9, 2021 [–]

It reminds me of a talk by infosec researcher "The Grugq" about opsec techniques used by blackhat hackers. Its subtitle was because jail is only for wuftpd, I couldn't stop laughing at it.

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