[HN Gopher] Stack buffer overflow attack: 211BSD on the PDP-11
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       Stack buffer overflow attack: 211BSD on the PDP-11
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2023-11-20 23:47 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.com)
        
       | MarkusWandel wrote:
       | In a way, I miss the days where there was kind of a "gentlemen's
       | agreement" not to abuse vulnerabilities with antisocial
       | behaviour. The Morris worm changed that for networked Unix
       | machines. The Canter & Siegel spam changed that for Usenet. And
       | the beautiful open architecture of everything has devolved into
       | heavily armed conflict where antispam measures mean you can't
       | send email from "interesting" sources, you can be blocked by
       | Cloudflare if they deem your internet behaviour suspicious, where
       | you can be banned for life from important platforms because an
       | algorithm thinks you might cause trouble, etc.
       | 
       | As with so many other things "we can't have nice things" because
       | there are always bad apples, and everything devolves into a
       | standoff between them and everyone else, with lots of collateral
       | damage.
        
       | dboreham wrote:
       | Not actually exploiting 2.11 fwiw but rather showing how to make
       | an exploit payload if there were an exploitable program in 2.11
       | (which undoubtedly there is, somewhere).
        
       | TriangleEdge wrote:
       | You should file a CVE for this exploit for the government
       | agencies that still use the PDP-11, probably like the US nuclear
       | arsenal command.
       | 
       | Joke's aside, I though this was an easy and fun read.
        
         | varjag wrote:
         | Missile command's PDPs are securely air-gapped via RX02 8"
         | floppy drives.
        
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