Kierunkowy74
Programmer HumorI still find it funny that in the distant past an engineer thought pasted commands should have some ~~ characters added, so the user has to delete them & think about their actions while pressing their arrow or various faster ctrl+ keys ..
Oni-chan~~
You should really place a /j somewhere before someone thinks they're screwed
The community it’s posted in is a bit of a giveaway, isn’t it?
How dare you overestimate my intelligence.
I thought I was screwed
Holy shit, my computer is infected. I opened my terminal and typed "sudo ls -halR /" and it showed me every file on my computer. Oh my god.
I just tested this exploit, I was easily able to remove the french language pack by typing "rm -fr /*"
Don’t forget the —no-preserve-root flag or you’ll get an index out of bounds when deleting the recipe for five-root-puree
This flag is fortunately not needed as /* ensures root recipes are preserved. It's just that anything below isn't.
Okay. I briefly ate the onion, on this one. It tastes like sysadmin tears.
I had a msg to my team drafted before I realized I was a fucking idiot.
Save it for April 1.
in my defense, my team is always trying to be mr. achiever and drop the latest vulnerability. I got a glimpse of this one and got excited since I hadn't heard of this "new named threat". when I tried reading further to prepare my draft... the reach and exposure of this vulnerability became clear.
also, to mitigate this, we'd have to hotpatch layer 8.
How is it in your defense when you were going to do it to them?
justifying my behavior because I was motivated by the aforementioned external behaviors by establishing their trends of beating me to the aforementioned punch.
WOOO I need to let autocorrect hit that aforementioned word again yeah soo satisfying.
Duct tape works a treat for that!
I've sent a company wide email telling everyone I don't want to be sysasmin anymore.
It has nothing to do with the CVE
I was fooled until I saw the CVSS score of 11 on a scale of 0 to 10.
I only figured it out because I read your comment.
That's why I confessed. I'm glad to help.
I'm here cautiously making sure it's a joke that I don't understand. Problem exists between keyboard and seat.
Not even that, it's not a problem at all. They're just saying that when you open a terminal program you get access to the shell. That is exactly the point of a terminal program. It's a bit like "exclusive, shocking report: water is wet!"
I mean, I guess part of the joke is if an attacker can get into your computer they can do nefarious things, but that's not as funny.
Microsoft Paint: Not affected. Thank God.
Unless you have allowed the AI features to install
I'm tired boss
I work at google just shut off every server to protect us. 👍
I took the "us" in your statement to be "humanity" and it sparked an unexpected feeling of hope.
Just tried it out. It is real. And really simple to do.
Scary stuff. Tossing my machines in the bin tomorrow.
I'm not taking any chances. I've already tossed bash into the /bin/
Uh oh I tossed mine in sbin. What do?
slop :)
Getting a shell is bad, but what makes this worse is the insecurity of popular Linux tools that can be used for privilege escalation.
The sudo program has had a known vulnerability since its inception. The developers are incompetent. In some configurations, all you need is the user's password and you can execute arbitrary code as root. Sometimes, no password is needed at all.
That's why there's no sudo on my system, only doas.
sudo is so broken, automatic privilege cloning of any user
If he says he's there to upgrade the computers, don't let him in.
Nobody show this to my boss please, they'll be asking me why I haven't fixed it yet
Phew! Just got done patching all my servers. The main IOCs are
- C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
- /bin/bash
- /bin/sh
So zsh is good? /s
According to the report, zsh is even worse
2009 zsh adoption grows. Now the shell is also pretty, which researchers believe lures more victims.
nushell, ash, elvish, dash, powershell, ...
powershell is good because no hacker can be bothered typing that much to get anything to work ;)
They have aliases for multiple commands (such as cd, ls, curl, likely cat), so I'd still be careful 😬
Security by utter absence of usability
I'm taking some admin/security courses and powershell was touted as "it's so easy to make your own scripts to save time!". I was just like, "the fuck Koolaid are you drinking?"
pwsh
Was the command separated by dashes or case change? Let me che...ange to something else.
Switch off computer is the best mitigation
Removing keyboard and locking operator out of building is the next best thing.
Given simple primitives and runtime permissions, a skilled hacker can even bootstrap one of these “shells” from scratch, underlining the continued importance of banning math and computer science education in our schools.
Only tangentially related, but this reminds me of an interaction I had here on Lemmy. I was talking about my pure bash, brain-made CLI app that pushes files between Google Compute head nodes and Google Storage buckets, but does some additional fuckery with bash strings to serve as a crude git. Basically, the app manipulates a string that represents a bucket, and then uses the appropriate gcloud command with that string.
Someone was extremely concerned about the security of my app, how I should do an AI code review, and that only good programmers use all the tools available to them. I told them that I only want my code to be reviewed by humans. They said it was wild that someone would decline a security review. I told them that if there's a security issue with my app, they'll have to take it up with Google.
This one goes to 11
Finally I'm justified in doing everything via a GUI.
Gotta minimize your attack surface sudo apt remove konsole for any Debian kde based distros
sudo apt remove apt sudo
I used the stones to destroy the stones
While the palindromic structure of that command is pleasing to mine eye, LMDE basically called me a frickin' idiot for trying.
I know it always asks Continue [Y/n] and there's no yes | or echo | to force that, so I was reasonably sure I'd get away with it, but I don't think I could argue with the sentiment had it actually said that.
(Also, I have Timeshift, so that would have saved my bacon but for the inconvenience of having to go through a rollback.)
Anyway, here's what it said (scrolling may be required to see the last line which is clearly code for "you're an idiot"):
REMOVING:
apt apt-utils mint-meta-cinnamon mintsources mintupdate sudo
apt-file command-not-found mint-meta-core mintsystem python3-repolib
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
apt
Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 12, Not Upgrading: 1
Freed space: 52.3 MB
Error: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system.
Honestly, I want to be allowed to break my system. I own it, it should do exactly what I say, warnings are fine, but software deciding it knows better than you is how we have reached the inescapable technogulag of the now.
You can, if you create an empty file at /etc/apt/break-my-system first. It's intentionally not mentioned to prevent another Linus situation
Wow, I thought you might be joking but this is real
https://github.com/pop-os/apt/pull/1/files#diff-94ba980dc72616d5d15b341b827cb979343fcb0f20c4e0ab8910fa2e502e48e2R310
You could always try using "sudo dpkg -r --force-all apt" instead. It won't clean up the dependencies, admittedly.
In my experience, Linux only allows you to do 1 incredibly stupid thing at a time. Remove sudo? Cool. Remove apt? You betcha. Remove apt AND sudo? You're fucking nuts, I ain't doing that
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
Freedom 0 says I can be nuts and that clankers better obey
Oh, I heard of this one! Basically every single accidental corruption of any kind in any compny's production environment was made possible by this exploit! Scary stuff!
- 1989 Bash released. Name confirms the attack is intentional.
Must’ve been another AI found exploit because no human could piece this together
Thank goodness for frontier models.
I rarely comment on Lemmy but you actually made me laugh for 5 minutes straight 👏
Finally, I’m a real hacker.
I use Konsole on my Mac. It's not listed on there, so am I safe?
Probably, but it’s best practice to shut down until patches are available.
The article says it's a one click exploit, but I'm finding I need to make two quick clicks to enter into the program. Can someone help me?? Am I doing something wrong?
I've spent all day trying to update my software to get this to work!!!
Yeah, I have to hit super then type 'te' before I can one-click this exploit
Though I guess I could make it one-click if I added a desktop shortcut to the terminal emulator
Fortunately Windows is at least protected from gaining elevated privileges since it still has to go through UAC. I hope nobody discovers some vulnerability called something like "desktop2shell".
