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How ASLR protects Linux systems from buffer overflow attacks

Network World

ASLR is used today on Linux, Windows, and MacOS systems. It was first implemented on Linux in 2005. In 2007, the technique was deployed on Microsoft Windows and MacOS. While ASLR provides the same function on each of these operating systems, it is implemented differently on each one.

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You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”

The Verge

There were two products that arrived in 2007 that fundamentally changed computing: one, of course, was the iPhone. Again, this was a weirdo little two-pound plastic laptop that ran a custom Linux distro that was basically a front for various websites. (We The Eee PC 701SDX. It had an SD card slot, and an X.

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CVE-2020-15359: VDALabs Uses Mayhem To Find MP3Gain Stack Overflow

ForAllSecure

.” VDA Labs chose to test this app because it is an open source C++ application running on Linux, that is easy to input (just pass in an MP3 file) and has about 12,000 downloads per week, according to SourceForge. Mayhem has a CLI available to download and that was used on a local Linux host. 2) Finding CVE-2020-15359.

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CVE-2020-15359: VDALabs Uses Mayhem To Find MP3Gain Stack Overflow

ForAllSecure

.” VDA Labs chose to test this app because it is an open source C++ application running on Linux, that is easy to input (just pass in an MP3 file) and has about 12,000 downloads per week, according to SourceForge. Mayhem has a CLI available to download and that was used on a local Linux host. 2) Finding CVE-2020-15359.

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CVE-2020-15359: VDALabs Uses Mayhem To Find MP3Gain Stack Overflow

ForAllSecure

.” VDA Labs chose to test this app because it is an open source C++ application running on Linux, that is easy to input (just pass in an MP3 file) and has about 12,000 downloads per week, according to SourceForge. Mayhem has a CLI available to download and that was used on a local Linux host. 2) Finding CVE-2020-15359.

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Technology Short Take #75

Scott Lowe

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Talk about a “blast from the past”: way back in 2007, I wrote about a Terminal Services client called TSClientX ( here’s the post I wrote ). Alpine Linux 3.5

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The 10-Year Platform: Shutting Down KRE

Phil Windley

KRE was started in 2007 and envisioned as a cloud-based programming platform for events. So, we built KRE using Dell servers, Linux, virtual servers, Puppet , and other technology we were familiar with. But Fuse stopped working for good last spring when the MVNO we were using to process cellular data from the car devices shut down.