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document CVE-2024-28820
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diff --git a/lume/src/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024-28820.md b/lume/src/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024-28820.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cdb7ffe --- /dev/null +++ b/lume/src/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024-28820.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: '"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens' +date: 2024-06-27 +series: "no-way-to-prevent-this" +type: blog +hero: + ai: "Photo by Andrea Piacquadio, source: Pexels" + file: sad-business-man + prompt: A forlorn business man resting his head on a brown wall next to a window. +--- + +In the hours following the release of [CVE-2024-28820](https://www.tenable.com/cve/CVE-2024-28820) for the project [OpenVPN Auth-LDAP](https://github.com/threerings/openvpn-auth-ldap), site reliability workers +and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a vulnerability where passing fourteen colons into the password field when the attacker knows a valid username, causing a buffer overflow. This is due to the affected components being +written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen. "This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes +these things just happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them," said programmer King Edmond Wiegand, echoing statements +expressed by hundreds of thousands of programmers who use the only language where 90% of the world's memory safety vulnerabilities have +occurred in the last 50 years, and whose projects are 20 times more likely to have security vulnerabilities. "It's a shame, but what can +we do? There really isn't anything we can do to prevent memory safety vulnerabilities from happening if the programmer doesn't want to +write their code in a robust manner." At press time, users of the only programming language in the world where these vulnerabilities +regularly happen once or twice per quarter for the last eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as "helpless." |