The system function has thus nothing to do with that, right? The main point here being : start bash with a badly formatted environment variable. The vulnerability : env -i VAR='() { echo "Here is a legitimate function content"; }; echo "This is the vulnerability";' bash -c 'echo "Some code which is irrelevant";';
Some C code (gcc -o testCode main.c) : #include int main(void) {
printf("This is a Shelllock test\n");
system("echo \"Hello World\"");
return 0; }
And start it with : env -i VAR='() { echo "Here is a legitimate function content"; }; echo "This is the vulnerability";'./testCode
I don't have any vulnerability message appearing here.
Thanks for the explanation. I also finally got it a few hours ago (I am not a sysadmin or web developer) and I am more concerned about the rogue DHCP requests.
Especially handling user generated content without testing it and feeding directly to Bash through CGI. I personally fail to see what all this is about. Are we also considering that most databases or PHP have a similar bug, since if you do not sanitize the user input it is an opened door to havoc?
They essentially haven't made any progress since when they turned to laser scanning a few years ago. Oh and no, not really impressive graphics. They're just showing a cloud of points with some color. No dynamic lights and shading, no dynamic geometries/skeletal deformation here...
As a physicist would tell you : assuming the average person can be replaced by a sphere of 1m radius, the phone, being in the front pocket of the hemispherical pants will bend to their surface, a flex of about 12mm on the side (parabolic approximation of the cap of spherical people, considering a 151.8mm long IPhone 6 Plus).
So what you are saying is that all the people working on distributions such as Arch, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, openSUSE, RHEL, Ubuntu and possibly others, know nothing about how to choose components to make their "OS" work?
I see a lot of people complaining about the complexity of the language. But it seems that no one dares to give any example. For my part (I had a 3-days introduction to C++, everything else was learnt by practicing) I don't find it really enormous. Aside from the auto (because type deduction = E.V.I.L., use typedef's if you don't want to spend your time typing std::someType::some_const_iterator), I fail to see what change is mandatory in the language structure. What you wrote few years ago is still correct and you don't have to use these new features to work... So what is it?
We compute a mask for the object pixels, and use this mask to inpaint the background using the PatchMatch algorithm [Barnes et al. 2009]. For complex backgrounds, the user may touch up the background image after inpainting.
1 - Write an automated take down script :
For each $contentProvider
{
For each $content in getCatalog($contentProvider)
{
if(true)
sendDMCATakeDownNotice( $contentProvider, $content, getRandomClientName() );
}
}
For each $counterNotice
send( $contentProvider, "My apologies, it is the automated script which made the mistake. Your feedback will help improve its detection rate');// Do not change anything...
2 - Sell the service to hundreds of these large companies. 3 - Profit!
Don't worry, the box has already filled a complaint to Google in order to remove all search results related to this story... And it will gone for good...
I can't imagine this was done on purpose... I can't imagine how a scientist would, knowingly, publish wrong results (and perceived as revolutionary/important by their peers). Because this would be nothing more than willingly putting a sword of Damocles over your head / committing professional suicide on the spot. I mean, how is that possible that rational people (scientific minds) would accept to do such thing while being sure it will compromise their entire career (and life) after that?
The part of the driver which is compiled as a kernel module to serve as adapter against the binary blob? You thought that it wanted the linux-headers package just for the fun of reading it on its own time?
Slashdot Mirror
Divide by the number of trains to be operated...
The system function has thus nothing to do with that, right? The main point here being : start bash with a badly formatted environment variable.
The vulnerability :
env -i VAR='() { echo "Here is a legitimate function content"; }; echo "This is the vulnerability";' bash -c 'echo "Some code which is irrelevant";';
Some C code (gcc -o testCode main.c) :
#include
int main(void)
{
printf("This is a Shelllock test\n");
system("echo \"Hello World\"");
return 0;
}
And start it with : ./testCode
env -i VAR='() { echo "Here is a legitimate function content"; }; echo "This is the vulnerability";'
I don't have any vulnerability message appearing here.
Thanks for the explanation. I also finally got it a few hours ago (I am not a sysadmin or web developer) and I am more concerned about the rogue DHCP requests.
Mod parent up!
Especially handling user generated content without testing it and feeding directly to Bash through CGI. I personally fail to see what all this is about. Are we also considering that most databases or PHP have a similar bug, since if you do not sanitize the user input it is an opened door to havoc?
They essentially haven't made any progress since when they turned to laser scanning a few years ago.
Oh and no, not really impressive graphics. They're just showing a cloud of points with some color. No dynamic lights and shading, no dynamic geometries/skeletal deformation here...
As a physicist would tell you : assuming the average person can be replaced by a sphere of 1m radius, the phone, being in the front pocket of the hemispherical pants will bend to their surface, a flex of about 12mm on the side (parabolic approximation of the cap of spherical people, considering a 151.8mm long IPhone 6 Plus).
for every stupid project they come up with
Do you have any examples for this?
Oh yeah you don't, because there is no such thing...
If I receive wi-fi enabled organs, will I be required to also get the horrible wi-fi logo tattooed on my forehead?
[OA player here]
They allowed bunny hopping to do the same as strafe-jumping? seriously?
Bye bye defrag...
Did it also crashed 107 million times while simulating this city?
What are they (Zinc) providing that is not just computing power? Custom interfaces?
Why would Google be interested in such thing?
So what you are saying is that all the people working on distributions such as Arch, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, openSUSE, RHEL, Ubuntu and possibly others, know nothing about how to choose components to make their "OS" work?
If yes, please develop.
Just have to wait another 25 years to see the movie...
I see a lot of people complaining about the complexity of the language. But it seems that no one dares to give any example. For my part (I had a 3-days introduction to C++, everything else was learnt by practicing) I don't find it really enormous. Aside from the auto (because type deduction = E.V.I.L., use typedef's if you don't want to spend your time typing std::someType::some_const_iterator), I fail to see what change is mandatory in the language structure. What you wrote few years ago is still correct and you don't have to use these new features to work...
So what is it?
No, it seems they are using inpainting :
We compute a mask for the object pixels, and use this mask to inpaint the background using the PatchMatch algorithm [Barnes et al. 2009]. For complex backgrounds, the user may touch up the background image after inpainting.
Thus, only one image is required.
Unlike a desktop OS, browser, or other software, the DiskStation does not normally remind you to do this.
My NAS on DSM 5 popups the update window shortly after connecting if a new update is available...
1 - Write an automated take down script :
For each $contentProvider
{
For each $content in getCatalog($contentProvider)
{
if(true)
sendDMCATakeDownNotice( $contentProvider, $content, getRandomClientName() );
}
}
For each $counterNotice // Do not change anything...
send( $contentProvider, "My apologies, it is the automated script which made the mistake. Your feedback will help improve its detection rate');
2 - Sell the service to hundreds of these large companies.
3 - Profit!
Aliens ...playing with EMPs a million years ago?
Don't worry, the box has already filled a complaint to Google in order to remove all search results related to this story...
And it will gone for good...
Exactly!
Reviewers don't try to reproduce the results in their own lab.
Reviewers don't have human*time and financial resources to reproduce results in their own lab.
FTFY
I can't imagine this was done on purpose... I can't imagine how a scientist would, knowingly, publish wrong results (and perceived as revolutionary/important by their peers). Because this would be nothing more than willingly putting a sword of Damocles over your head / committing professional suicide on the spot. I mean, how is that possible that rational people (scientific minds) would accept to do such thing while being sure it will compromise their entire career (and life) after that?
Or wait for the one from Microsoft...
The part of the driver which is compiled as a kernel module to serve as adapter against the binary blob?
You thought that it wanted the linux-headers package just for the fun of reading it on its own time?
Not if your using a perfect mirror (conductivity going to infinity, no Joule currents).