[HN Gopher] General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in...
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       General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and
       Conquer
        
       Author : speckx
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2026-01-27 19:16 UTC (6 days ago)
        
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       | joe_mamba wrote:
       | _> After initial discovery and creation of the PoCs, we reached
       | out to EA Games in August 2025 to report these issues. EA was
       | helpful but confirmed that the issues were not within scope of
       | their support._
       | 
       | Man, I gotta respect the balls on the author for reaching out to
       | EA, and with a straight face, expecting them to push a bug fix
       | for a ~23 year old game. Someone at EA who got the email probably
       | got a chuckle out of it.
       | 
       | Also happy to see this classic RTS is still being played and even
       | developed by the community. I'd be curious to know what the age
       | of people this invested into the game is, if it's all 30+ year
       | old boomers with nostalgia and knee pain, or if Generals also
       | found its way to the current generation of players. _" Can I have
       | some shoes?"_
        
         | protocolture wrote:
         | They have a tendency to rerelease the full stack every few
         | years.
        
       | client4 wrote:
       | This talk was a hit at Districtcon's junkyard talks --
       | outstanding work; and hilarious to see Doom inside of C&C.
        
       | OsamaJaber wrote:
       | Surprised it took this long for someone to write it up properly
        
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