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| author | Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net> | 2024-04-21 14:56:53 -0400 |
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| committer | Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net> | 2024-04-21 14:56:53 -0400 |
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CVE-2024-2961
Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net>
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diff --git a/lume/src/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024-2961.md b/lume/src/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024-2961.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90f6a2c --- /dev/null +++ b/lume/src/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024-2961.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: '"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens' +date: 2024-04-21 +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-2024-2961](https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/18/4) for the project [GNU glibc](https://sourceware.org/glibc/), site reliability workers +and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a vulnerability when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set, which may be used to gain arbitrary code execution or arbitrary memory corruption. 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 Miss Esmeralda Skiles, 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." |