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turbert

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    Comment #49227215

    when the GPU capex overshadows everything else your idle hardware is burning enormous amounts of money

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    Comment #48915896

    > I argue the opposite: there’s no better fix for this The better fix would be to not have the username pass through a parser looking for cli flags in the first place.

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    Comment #48915828

    A correct implementation would be to just call glibc directly, this seems like a hasty fix to get the patch out the door. The history of vulns from bad shell escaping is as old as …

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    Comment #47227203

    likely intended more as a lint than a security feature, it's not unusual to want to exclude commonly misused features from your code and any libraries you use. Knowing the mess tha…

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    Comment #47227141

    from a quick skim, it looks like the underlying bug is just not handling object resurrection[1] at all (FreeMe adds a reference to $array while its destructor is called). I'm not r…

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    Comment #45707379

    Its been a while since I've touched this stuff but my recollection is the ELF interpreter (ldso, not the kernel) is responsible for everything after mapping the initial ELF's segme…