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GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

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Re: GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

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Post by LastTrain »

abofh wrote: post #20
Uptrenda wrote: post #19

Has anyone in infosec ever seen the term "use after free" before LLMs? Or is this basically an acronym claude invented? I say this because I see claude use this term all the time like its common knowledge but in 15+ years in tech never seen it myself. I've seen all kinds of terms used to describe memory errors: memory corruption, heap corruption, stack corruption, whatever, just never this acronym.

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There is an interesting episode of This American Life about how everyone, everyone, has weird gaps in their knowledge that eventually get filled in sometimes fun or humiliating ways. You have these too.

Re: GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

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Post by defrost »

abofh wrote: post #20
Uptrenda wrote: post #19

Has anyone in infosec ever seen the term "use after free" before LLMs? Or is this basically an acronym claude invented? I say this because I see claude use this term all the time like its common knowledge but in 15+ years in tech never seen it myself. I've seen all kinds of terms used to describe memory errors: memory corruption, heap corruption, stack corruption, whatever, just never this acronym.

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I can see that you're old and that I'm older, but I fail to see the justification for being snarky about that.

  Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
~ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

#34

Post by abofh »

defrost wrote: post #33
abofh wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I can see that you're old and that I'm older, but I fail to see the justification for being snarky about that. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re: GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

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Post by defrost »

abofh wrote: post #34
defrost wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can see that you're old and that I'm older, but I fail to see the justification for being snarky about that. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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And a wrong justifies a wrong?

These are the times we make.

Re: GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

#37

Post by dang »

abofh wrote: post #20
Uptrenda wrote: post #19

Has anyone in infosec ever seen the term "use after free" before LLMs? Or is this basically an acronym claude invented? I say this because I see claude use this term all the time like its common knowledge but in 15+ years in tech never seen it myself. I've seen all kinds of terms used to describe memory errors: memory corruption, heap corruption, stack corruption, whatever, just never this acronym.

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Please don't be snarky or cross into putdowns or personal attack. We're all in (let's call it) the unlucky 10,000 about something. About most things actually.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

#39

Post by dang »

LastTrain wrote: post #31
abofh wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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There is an interesting episode of This American Life about how everyone, everyone, has weird gaps in their knowledge that eventually get filled in sometimes fun or humiliating ways. You have these too.

Wow, what is that episode? I haven't listened to TAL in probably more than a decade but it was great for a long time, and for all I know still is.

Re: GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

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Post by dang »

Uptrenda wrote: post #28
abofh wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I understand the response (hence https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887373) but please don't react by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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