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crash report Dmitriy Solodunenko (Oct 31)
Ubuntu 24.04
Version: 7.94+SVN
TypeError: Couldn't find foreign struct converter for 'cairo.Context'

crash Tim Millard (Oct 31)
Version: 7.94+SVN
TypeError: Couldn't find foreign struct converter for 'cairo.Context'

Ubuntu 24.04.01

Re: Regarding NMAP Retrigger for snmp-sysdescr Daniel Miller (Oct 31)
Ramu,

Nmap's snmp-sysdescr script currently uses a 5-second timeout and attempts
only once to send the SNMPv1 request. We agree that this could be improved
to provide better reliability. I will investigate further and respond again
with specific suggestions.

Dan

Regarding NMAP Retrigger for snmp-sysdescr Ramu Burra via dev (Oct 31)
Hi Daniel & NMAP team,

I hope this email finds you well.

I'm writing to inquire about the specific behaviour of Nmap's SNMP-SYSDescr query in situations where the target device
responds intermittently.

I'm particularly interested in knowing if there are any specific configuration options or techniques that can be
employed to increase the likelihood of successful SNMP-SYSDescr queries, especially when dealing with...

Re: Nmap PR #2909 Sinan DoÄŸan (Oct 21)
thanks

Vahagn Vardanian via dev <dev () nmap org>, 17 Eyl 2024 Sal, 18:59 tarihinde
şunu yazdı:

Re: NSConnection Probe Harrison Neal (Oct 11)
Apologies, it looks like the probe suggestion was cut off now that I
re-read it.

Probe TCP NSConnection_rootProxy...

NSConnection Probe Harrison Neal (Oct 11)
Good day,

It appears that nmap doesn't currently recognize TCP-bound NSConnection (
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsconnection ).

Example server code:

NSConnection *a = [NSConnection connectionWithReceivePort:[[NSSocketPort
alloc] init] sendPort:nil];
[a setRootObject:[[NSObject alloc] init]];
[a runInNewThread];
[NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:300.0f];

Example client code:

NSLog(@"%@\n", [[NSConnection...

NSE scripts for SNMPv3? Johan Kuuse (Oct 03)
Hi, my first mail to this list,

I have used (and modified) quite a few NSE scripts for SNMP.
Anyhow, AFAIK, all SNMP scripts (except "snmp-info") are limited to SNMPv1
and SNMPv2c:

nmap --script-help=snmp* | grep -B3 -A1 -i v3
----------------------------------
snmp-info
Categories: default version safe
https://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/snmp-info.html
Extracts basic information from an SNMPv3 GET request. The same probe is
used
here...

Nmap PR #2909 Vahagn Vardanian via dev (Sep 17)
Hello there,
My name is Vahagn, and I am the co-founder and CTO of RedRays.
A few weeks ago, we created a pull request to Nmap Github to add a new
check for detecting the most popular information disclosure in SAP systems.

You can get list of SAp systems using this google dork: inurl:/irj/portal
Thank you

NPCAP 1.60 high CPU usage with pcap filter that does not pass anything (Win10) Vladimir Soldatov (Sep 17)
Hi guys,

I've a setup (Win10, Intel X520, NPCAP 1.60) with relatively high traffic
around 700 Mbit/s and I am trying to test the following cases:
1. Capture everything with empty pcap filter and just print stats with some
period calculating captured data size
2. Capture nothing with an intentionally created filter that does not match
the received traffic at all.
3. Capture some subset of traffic like 10%.

In all the cases, CPU usage...

[PATCH 1/1] Improved the legibility of `Makefile` Ariel Otilibili (Sep 17)
* source files obtained by a wildcard
* headers and objects generated by differences.

```
$ grep -P '(SRCS|HDRS|OBJS) =' Makefile.in | \
sed -e 's/^export.*= //g; s/\$.*//g; s/OBJS = //' | \
sed -ne '2p' | \
tr ' ' '\n' | \
sed -e 's/\.h//' | \
sort -d | \
grep -vP '^$' > headers

$ grep -P '(SRCS|HDRS|OBJS) =' Makefile.in | \
sed -e...

[PATCH 0/1] Improved the legibility of Makefile Ariel Otilibili (Sep 17)
Hello committers,

The same patch is on this PR: https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/2938

Have a good weekend,
Ariel

Ariel Otilibili (1):
Improved the legibility of `Makefile`

Makefile.in | 14 +++-----------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

How to make a minimal HTTPS request with ncat --ssl with explicit HTTP content? Ciro Santilli OurBigBook via dev (Sep 17)
Hello, I was trying for fun to make an HTTPS request with explicit hand-written HTTP content.

Something analogous to:

printf 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n' | ncat example.com 80

but for HTTPS. After Googling one of the tools that I found that seemed it might do the job was ncat from the nmap
project, so I tried:

printf 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n' | ncat --ssl example.com 443

an that works...

[PATCH 1/1] Updated ALPN IDs Ariel Otilibili (Sep 15)
```
$ URL=https://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-extensiontype-values/alpn-protocol-ids.csv
$ curl -sL ${URL} |
perl -nE 'say $& if /(?<=\"\").*(?=\"\")/' |
sort > iana;
< scripts/tls-alpn.nse perl -nE 'say $& if m!(?<=")[\w/\.\-]+(?=",)!' |
sort > nmap.alpn;
diff iana nmap.alpn | grep '<'

< co
< postgresql

$ curl --silent ${URL} --output...

[PATCH 0/1] Updated ALPN IDs (Mon, 26 Aug 2024 17:55:25 GMT) Ariel Otilibili (Sep 15)
Hello,

Herewith the PR containing this patch: https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/2939

Have a good week,
Ariel

Ariel Otilibili (1):
Updated ALPN IDs

scripts/tls-alpn.nse | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

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Nmap 7.95 released: OS and service detection signatures galore! Gordon Fyodor Lyon (May 05)
Dear Nmap Community,

I just arrived in San Francisco for the RSA conference and am delighted to
announce our Nmap Version 7.95 release! I'm most excited that we finally
tackled our backlog of OS and service detection fingerprint submissions.
We're not talking about dozens or hundreds of them-we processed more than
6,500 fingerprints!

For OS detection, we added 336 signatures, bringing the new total to 6,036.
Additions include iOS 15...

Npcap Celebrates its 10th Anniversary In Space! Gordon Fyodor Lyon (Oct 05)
Dear Nmap community,

Last month we celebrated Nmap's 26th birthday and today I'm happy to share
another big milestone: Our Npcap driver for capturing and sending raw
packets on Windows turned 10 this year! From humble beginnings as a
security and modernization patch for the discontinued WinPcap project,
Npcap has become an indispensable component for both Nmap and Wireshark.
And it's used by hundreds of other software products and...

Nmap 26th Birthday Announcement: Version 7.94 Gordon Fyodor Lyon (Sep 01)
Dear Nmap community,

Today is Nmap’s 26th birthday, which reminded me that I hadn’t yet
announced our Nmap 7.94 release from May. And it’s a great one! The biggest
improvement was the Zenmap and Ndiff upgrades from the obsolete Python 2
language to Python 3 on all platforms. Big thanks to Daniel Miller, Jakub
Kulík, Brian Quigley, Sam James, Eli Schwartz, Romain Leonard, Varunram
Ganesh, Pavel Zhukov, Carey Balboa, and Hasan Aliyev for...

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Microsoft Warbird and PMP security research - technical doc Security Explorations (Dec 03)
Hello All,

We have released a technical document pertaining to our Warbird / PMP security
research. It is available for download from this location:

https://security-explorations.com/materials/wbpmp_doc.md.txt

The document provides a more in-depth technical explanation, illustration and
verification of discovered attacks affecting PlayReady on Windows 10 / 11 x64
and pertaining to the following in particular:
- Warbird deficiencies
- content...

Access Control in Paxton Net2 software Jeroen Hermans via Fulldisclosure (Dec 02)
CloudAware Security Advisory

[CVE pending]: Potential PII leak and incorrect access control in Paxton
Net2 software

========================================================================
Summary
========================================================================
Insecure backend database in the Paxton Net2 software. Possible leaking
of PII incorrect access control.
No physical access to computer running Paxton Net2 is required....

SEC Consult SA-20241127-0 :: Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Omada Identity (CVE-2024-52951) SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Nov 27)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20241127-0 >
=======================================================================
title: Stored Cross-Site Scripting
product: Omada Identity
vulnerable version: <v15U1, <v14.14 hotfix #309
fixed version: v15U1, v14.14 hotfix #309
CVE number: CVE-2024-52951
impact: Medium
homepage:...

SEC Consult SA-20241125-0 :: Unlocked JTAG interface and buffer overflow in Siemens SM-2558 Protocol Element, Siemens CP-2016 & CP-2019 SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Nov 27)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20241125-0 >
=======================================================================
title: Unlocked JTAG interface and buffer overflow
product: Siemens SM-2558 Protocol Element (extension module for
Siemens SICAM AK3/TM/BC),
Siemens CP-2016 & CP-2019
vulnerable version: JTAG: Unknown HW revision, Zynq Firmware...

Re: Local Privilege Escalations in needrestart Mark Esler (Nov 27)
The security fix for CVE-2024-48991, 6ce6136 (“core: prevent race
condition on /proc/$PID/exec evaluation”) [0], introduced a regression
which was subsequently fixed 42af5d3 ("core: fix regression of false
positives for processes running in chroot or mountns (#317)") [1].

Many thanks to Ivan Kurnosov and Salvatore Bonaccorso for their review.

[0] https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/6ce6136cccc307c6b8a0f8cae12f9a22ac2aad59...

APPLE-SA-11-19-2024-5 macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Nov 21)
APPLE-SA-11-19-2024-5 macOS Sequoia 15.1.1

macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/121753.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

JavaScriptCore
Available for: macOS Sequoia
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary...

Local Privilege Escalations in needrestart Qualys Security Advisory via Fulldisclosure (Nov 21)
Qualys Security Advisory

LPEs in needrestart (CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992,
CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003)

========================================================================
Contents
========================================================================

Summary
Background
CVE-2024-48990 (and CVE-2024-48992)
CVE-2024-48991
CVE-2024-10224 (and CVE-2024-11003)
Mitigation
Acknowledgments
Timeline

I got bugs...

APPLE-SA-11-19-2024-4 iOS 17.7.2 and iPadOS 17.7.2 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Nov 21)
APPLE-SA-11-19-2024-4 iOS 17.7.2 and iPadOS 17.7.2

iOS 17.7.2 and iPadOS 17.7.2 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/121754.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

JavaScriptCore
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 13-inch, iPad Pro 12.9-inch
2nd generation...

APPLE-SA-11-19-2024-3 iOS 18.1.1 and iPadOS 18.1.1 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Nov 21)
APPLE-SA-11-19-2024-3 iOS 18.1.1 and iPadOS 18.1.1

iOS 18.1.1 and iPadOS 18.1.1 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/121752.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

JavaScriptCore
Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 13-inch, iPad Pro 12.9-inch
3rd generation...

APPLE-SA-11-19-2024-2 visionOS 2.1.1 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Nov 21)
APPLE-SA-11-19-2024-2 visionOS 2.1.1

visionOS 2.1.1 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/121755.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

JavaScriptCore
Available for: Apple Vision Pro
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary
code...

APPLE-SA-11-19-2024-1 Safari 18.1.1 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Nov 21)
APPLE-SA-11-19-2024-1 Safari 18.1.1

Safari 18.1.1 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/121756.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

JavaScriptCore
Available for: macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to...

Reflected XSS - fronsetiav1.1 Andrey Stoykov (Nov 21)
# Exploit Title: Reflected XSS - fronsetiav1.1
# Date: 11/2024
# Exploit Author: Andrey Stoykov
# Version: 1.1
# Tested on: Debian 12
# Blog:
https://msecureltd.blogspot.com/2024/11/friday-fun-pentest-series-14-reflected.html

Reflected XSS #1 - "show_operations.jsp"

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Visit main page of the application.
2. In the input field of "WSDL Location" enter the following payload "><img
src=x...

XXE OOB - fronsetiav1.1 Andrey Stoykov (Nov 21)
# Exploit Title: XXE OOB - fronsetiav1.1
# Date: 11/2024
# Exploit Author: Andrey Stoykov
# Version: 1.1
# Tested on: Debian 12
# Blog:
https://msecureltd.blogspot.com/2024/11/friday-fun-pentest-series-15-oob-xxe.html

XXE OOB

Description:

- It was found that the application was vulnerable XXE (XML External Entity
Injection)

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Add Python3 server to serve malicious XXE payload
2. Add a file on the file system to be read...

St. Poelten UAS | Path Traversal in Korenix JetPort 5601 Weber Thomas via Fulldisclosure (Nov 21)
St. Pölten UAS 20241118-1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title| Path Traversal
product| Korenix JetPort 5601
vulnerable version| 1.2
fixed version| -
CVE number| CVE-2024-11303
impact| High
homepage| https://www.korenix.com/
found| 2024-05-24
by| P. Oberndorfer, B. Tösch, M....

St. Poelten UAS | Multiple Stored Cross-Site Scripting in SEH utnserver Pro Weber Thomas via Fulldisclosure (Nov 21)
St. Pölten UAS 20241118-0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title| Multiple Stored Cross-Site Scripting
product| SEH utnserver Pro
vulnerable version| 20.1.22
fixed version| 20.1.35
CVE number| CVE-2024-11304
impact| High
homepage| https://www.seh-technology.com/
found| 2024-05-24
by| P....

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Hacking the Edges of Knowledge: LLMs, Vulnerabilities, and the Quest for Understanding Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Nov 02)
[image: image.png]

It's impossible not to notice that we live in an age of technological
wonders, stretching back to the primitive hominids who dared to ask "Why?"
but also continually accelerating and pulling everything apart while it
does, in the exact same manner as the Universe at large. It is why all the
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someone got on a megaphone at Chaos...

Old Infosec Talks: Metlstorm's Take on Hacky Hacking Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Oct 31)
The Anatomy of Compromise

One of my demented hobbies is watching old infosec talks and then seeing
how well they hold up to modern times. Recently I excavated Metlstorm's
2017 BSides Canberra
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjgvP9UB9GI&list=TLGGvAY1CcIr-AcyNjEwMjAyNA>
talk on "How people get hacked" - a pretty generic topic that gives a lot
of room for opinion, and one a lot of people have opined on, but the talk
itself...

Grace Hopper and the Rebirth of US Conferences Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Oct 10)
I spent some time watching all the Grace Hopper videos on the youtubes, as
I prepared for what up North is a horrible storm, but here in Miami is, so
far, a breezy and clear day. You can hear her talk about how subroutines
used to be literal handwritten pages of instructions in notebooks. When you
wanted SIN or COS you would go over to whoever had the notebook with the
working version, and copy it out into your code.

It was this experience that...

Developing Clairvoyance Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Sep 30)
As you know, humans like to invent comfort words. One of my favorites is
"luck". The theory being that yes, the universe has dice, but they are
loaded in your favor. Properly used, these words are a spell - they allow
us to have courage when a sober mind would quail. But when you become a
professional, you have to give up these crutches. Only poor poker players
believe in "luck".

In computer science, and especially in machine...

Re: sboms and LLMs Adrian Sanabria via Dailydave (Sep 12)
We've been talking about and giving "Beyond the SBOM" presentations for a
while now, but to your point, I don't see anyone actually doing it.

If Solarwinds said "here's a script that will lock down your host firewall
to just the outbound access our tools need to update themselves", that
would be amazing, and would have saved everyone some time and trouble a few
years ago.

[image: image.png]
And Biden's EO...

Re: sboms and LLMs Isaac Dawson via Dailydave (Sep 12)
Well this is rather timely! Although I'm not sure using an LLM for the
behavioral aspect is entirely necessary. I've been working on an
experimental system that does just what you talk about for dependencies (
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/dependency_scanning/experiment_libbehave_dependency.html,
pre-alpha!). My solution uses static analysis because I'm a fan of
determinism.

Snark aside, looking at behaviors...

sboms and LLMs Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Sep 11)
People doing software security often use LLMs more as orchestrators than
anything else. But there's so many more complicated ways to use them in our
space coming down the pipe. Obviously the next evolution of SBOMs
<https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/cisa-sbom-rama> is that
they represent not just what is contained in the code as some static tree
of library dependencies, but also what that code does in a summary fashion...

Re: Persistence and Strategic Effects the grugq via Dailydave (Aug 16)
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I gave a talk back in 2015 [1] which I think has held up rather well. My argument was that cyber is evolving in
unpredictable ways as we learn more about the domain. That the current state of the art has huge blind spots we aren’t
even thinking about. The next year was, of course, the 2016 disinformation campaign fed by cyber loot.

I feel that a great deal of cyber war literature is based on knowledge derived from...

Persistence and Strategic Effects Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Aug 15)
Before there were words, calculated as the softmax of a list of possible
tokens, there were just vectors of nano-electrical potential in cells
soaked in a hormonal brew of electrolytes, operating on a clock cycle of
"slow, but fast enough". In this sense, as we now know
<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10472538/>, we generate words
and we know, in our heads, what we are, in the same way as we generate
limbs, with each...

Re: "Exploitation Less Likely" Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Aug 13)
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But while you are at it, always good to watch a video for no reason:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVXrl4W1jOU

-dave

Re: "Exploitation Less Likely" Don A. Bailey via Dailydave (Aug 13)

"Exploitation Less Likely" Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Aug 12)
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<https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781803924854/book-part-9781803924854-6.xml>.
Some of them are good papers! JD Work has a paper in it! But also some of
them get...

Re: LLMs and refusals David Manouchehri via Dailydave (Jul 28)
Breaking down a prompt into multiple steps works pretty well for us. e.g.
first we get generic mean reasons:

[image: image.png]

Then I just shove the mean reasons into the system message (you can do this
with another LLM call instead in real life, I just cheated by copy pasting
since there's already too many screenshots in this email):

[image: image.png]

This is with gpt-4o-2024-05-13 above, but you can see below it works with
Llama 3.1...

Re: LLMs and refusals Jason Ross via Dailydave (Jul 25)
It's likely this is going to happen anyway, the new Mistral just dropped
and seems to perform roughly on par with llama3 and gpt4o, so the next wave
of fine tuned versions like dolphin are almost certainly coming soon.

OpenAI also has announced free fine tuning of gpt4o mini until late
September (up to 2m tokens/day) so it may be possible to fine tune around
some of its guardrails for a reasonable cost.

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[OSSA-2024-005] Neutron: Authorization bypassed when setting tags on Neutron networks (CVE-2024-53916) Jay Faulkner (Dec 03)
===========================================================================
OSSA-2024-005: Authorization bypassed when setting tags on Neutron networks
===========================================================================

:Date: December 03, 2024
:CVE: CVE-2024-53916

Affects
~~~~~~~
- Neutron: >=23.0.0 <23.2.1, >=24.0.0 <24.0.2, >=25.0.0 <25.0.1

Description
~~~~~~~~~~~
Tore Anderson of Redpill Linpro AS discovered that...

CVE-2024-45106: Apache Ozone: Improper authentication when generating S3 secrets Ethan Rose (Dec 02)
Severity: moderate

Affected versions:

- Apache Ozone 1.4.0

Description:

Improper authentication of an HTTP endpoint in the S3 Gateway of Apache Ozone 1.4.0 allows any authenticated Kerberos
user to revoke and regenerate the S3 secrets of any other user. This is only possible if:
* ozone.s3g.secret.http.enabled is set to true. The default value of this configuration is false.
* The user configured in ozone.s3g.kerberos.principal is also...

Re: Linux: Race can lead to UAF in net/bluetooth/sco.c: sco_sock_connect() tianshu qiu (Nov 30)
Thanks for your explanation.

Re: Linux: Race can lead to UAF in net/bluetooth/sco.c: sco_sock_connect() Jeroen Roovers (Nov 30)
The commit you mention above was submitted on 1 October 2024:

commit e6720779ae612a14ac4ba7fe4fd5b27d900d932c
Author: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz () intel com>
Date: Tue Oct 1 15:46:10 2024 -0400

Bluetooth: SCO: Use kref to track lifetime of sco_conn

This make use of kref to keep track of reference of sco_conn which
allows better tracking of its lifetime with usage of things like
kref_get_unless_zero in a...

Re: Linux: Race can lead to UAF in net/bluetooth/sco.c: sco_sock_connect() tianshu qiu (Nov 30)
The diagrams needs to be displayed correctly in full screen. The
diagrams above are correct. The second diagram is the timeline for race.
After careful analysis and debugging,i guess the commit:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e6720779ae612a14ac4ba7fe4fd5b27d900d932c
has solved the UAF.
The introduction of kref object ensures the dangling sco_conn object being
freed in the function sco_conn_del when asynchronous hci event thread is...

Re: Local Privilege Escalations in needrestart Salvatore Bonaccorso (Nov 30)
Hi all,

Please note there was an update for the final merged commit:
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/issues/317#issuecomment-2506806378
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/e17b5644aff0f9eaeb422af7013b9c88ffc44423

Regards,
Salvatore

Re: Linux: Race can lead to UAF in net/bluetooth/sco.c: sco_sock_connect() Solar Designer (Nov 29)
I guess you actually mean the latest _known_ affected? So later
versions may also be affected, but you haven't confirmed that?

There were a couple of very wide diagrams in your message, which were
not properly formatted in its text/plain part. The below is my attempt
at resurrecting them from the text/html part (normally filtered out when
relaying through this mailing list), but a very wide window is still
needed to view them properly....

Re: Linux: Race can lead to UAF in net/bluetooth/sco.c: sco_sock_connect() tianshu qiu (Nov 29)
I emailed to security () kernel org, but no reply received.

This email is a correction to my previous email. The previous mail points
out that sco_sock_timeout deferences the freed "sk" and thus triggers the
UAF.
When using PoC to verify vulnerabilities, the timer function
sco_stock_timeout will be canceled. Because the remote bluetooth address
used by
connect is an invalid value, the asynchronous HCI event processing thread
will...

Re: Linux: Race can lead to UAF in net/bluetooth/sco.c: sco_sock_connect() Luiz Augusto von Dentz (Nov 29)
Hi,

Well, I guess we are still expecting this to be handled via
security () kernel org? And while there are some changes to SCO related
to sco_conn lifetime, and the patches mentioned above do not affect
the sco_connect to be invoked while helding sock_hold (proposed fix),
that said first we probably need to confirm the problem is still
reproducible upstream, if that is still reproducible I suspect we can
apply a similar fix that was done for...

stalld: unpatched fixed temporary file use and other issues Matthias Gerstner (Nov 29)
Hello list,

this is a report about unfixed issues in stalld [1]. We also offer a
rendered version of this report on our blog [2].

1) Introduction
===============

Stalld is a daemon that aims to prevent starvation of operating system
threads on Linux. It has recently been added to openSUSE Tumbleweed and
we performed a routine review the contained systemd service. During the
review we noticed a couple of security issues that should be...

Re: tuned: local root exploit in D-Bus method instance_create and other issues in tuned >= 2.23 (CVE-2024-52336, CVE-2024-52337) Matthias Gerstner (Nov 29)
Hello Simon,

[...]

thanks for the hint! Relying on D-Bus and kernel features is surely the
cleanest way to implement this.

Cheers

Matthias

Linux: Race can lead to UAF in net/bluetooth/sco.c: sco_sock_connect() Solar Designer (Nov 28)
Hi,

Upon expiration of the maximum of 14 days embargo, I am forwarding a
vulnerability report (and a couple of replies) that was erroneously
sent to the linux-distros list and then was not fully handled. We
require information actionable for the distros within the maximum of 14
days, which generally means that the upstream should be contacted first
and should have a fix ready for the distros to include (or at least
should expect that by the...

CVE-2024-52338: Apache Arrow R package: Arbitrary code execution when loading a malicious data file Dewey Dunnington (Nov 28)
Severity: critical

Affected versions:

- Apache Arrow R package 4.0.0 through 16.1.0

Description:

Deserialization of untrusted data in IPC and Parquet readers in the Apache Arrow R package versions 4.0.0 through
16.1.0 allows arbitrary code execution. An application is vulnerable if it
reads Arrow IPC, Feather or Parquet data from untrusted sources (for
example, user-supplied input files). This vulnerability only affects the arrow R...

Re: tuned: local root exploit in D-Bus method instance_create and other issues in tuned >= 2.23 (CVE-2024-52336, CVE-2024-52337) Simon McVittie (Nov 28)
This should be easily resolvable if the authors of tuned want to do so,
without needing to resort to relying on hard-to-predict cookie values.
Clients of the D-Bus system bus can identify other clients of the system
bus, by calling the GetConnectionCredentials method on the message bus
itself (this is how polkit works).

So, if tuned's design constraints allow a model where a cookie is only
considered valid to release if it was allocated by...

tuned: local root exploit in D-Bus method instance_create and other issues in tuned >= 2.23 (CVE-2024-52336, CVE-2024-52337) Matthias Gerstner (Nov 28)
Hello list,

this is a report a about a local root exploit and some other issues in
tuned [1]. We also offer a rendered version of this report on our blog
[2].

1) Introduction
===============

Tuned is a privileged daemon for Linux that supports
automatic tuning of various hardware and kernel settings during runtime.
The daemon offers a comprehensive D-Bus interface protected by Polkit
authentication. We regularly perform reviews of newly...

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Re: New home builders without wires Tom Mitchell (Dec 03)
Beyond that, my home (c. 1996) has RJ-45 stapled to the studs every X feet,
jacks in every room, and super-fat coax similarly fastened to studs in 3
rooms. Of course, none of this is in use. How many times have I wished
they used conduit.

RE: New home builders without wires Colin Stanners (lists) (Dec 03)
It's easy and relatively cost-effective to make a new home pretty
future-proof for connectivity by running conduit (of sufficient size,
without tight bends) from the telecom area to the outlet box(es) in each
room. For today run a coax and one or two cat6A; then whatever system
appears in the future can quickly replace those in the conduit. Considering
the importance of telecommunication/entertainment it's a surprise that very
few new...

Re: New home builders without wires William Herrin (Dec 03)
When I bought a new house a couple years ago, I told the realtor: I
will only consider homes where gigabit wired broadband is available
from at least two service providers. When I made an offer, I wrote it
into the contingencies: I would pay for the installation immediately
upon the offer's acceptance but would not close until the installation
was complete and verified.

Personally, I would worry about the resale value of a home which had...

Re: New home builders without wires Tim Howe (Dec 03)
It's always too late.

Installing facilities after the fact will cost 50 times more
than if they had been done during neighborhood construction. Nobody
will want to pay for that. It will not pencil out for a competing
provider to foot the bill... Especially when they can expect a low
take rate competing with a cheap alternative that is "good enough" for
most folks.

--TimH

Re: New home builders without wires Mark Tinka (Dec 03)
This sounds terribly broken.

I doubt it will be long until sense prevails.

Mark.

New home builders without wires Sean Donelan (Dec 03)
As some may remember from earlier this year, my friend was buying a new
"semi-custom" home. "Semi-custom" is a marketing term, meaning you get to
choose (pay more) pre-determined builder options. It is not custom
designed.

The home builder was not installing any wired broadband utilities in the
new neighborhood. No cable coax, no telephone DSL, no fiber optic. The
only option was wireless, with a special deal with a...

Netflix OCA Contact Mark Spring (Dec 02)
I'm looking for somebody at Netflix that can help me resolve an issue with their ticketing system. A couple of years
ago, they told us that we did not have enough traffic to get an OCA but they would continue to monitor it. I tried to
check in with them again and it just auto-closes the ticket saying that one is open. I tried to reply to the old ticket
but I haven't gotten a response for a couple weeks. I have no doubt they are busy...

Re: Carrier Ethernet Demarc Mark Tinka (Nov 29)
Not at all. NRZ is resilient at those distances. I was referring more to
PAM4... should have made that clearer :-).

Yep, NRZ will be fine at those distances. I have ran a 100G-ZR4 NRZ plug
on a 32km link successfully, where the 100G-ER4 struggled, due to the
fibre quality.

But those are grey plugs, which is why to get a cheap DWDM-based PAM4
option means you will need amplification and DCM to get beyond 10km.
Either that, or go coherent....

Weekly Global IPv4 Routing Table Report Routing Table Analysis Role Account (Nov 29)
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Global
IPv4 Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan.

The posting is sent to APOPS, NANOG, AfNOG, SANOG, PacNOG, SAFNOG
UKNOF, TZNOG, MENOG, BJNOG, SDNOG, CMNOG, LACNOG and the RIPE Routing WG.

Daily listings are sent to bgp-stats () lists apnic net.

For historical data, please see https://thyme.apnic.net.

If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith...

Re: Implementing Decentralized RPKI with Blockchain Technology Job Snijders via NANOG (Nov 29)
It does though. The constraining-rpki-trust-anchors mechanism effectively
prohibits RIRs from issuing ROAs (with any Origin AS, including AS 0), if
the ROA at hand violates the locally configured constraints.

The goal was to introduce a small policy language to mitigate some risk
around one RIR issuing ROAs covering IP space managed by another RIR.
Compartmentalise and isolate risks in the system.

The example constraints in the draft are also...

DNS-OARC Cfp - Closing Soon Merike Kaeo (Nov 29)
Hello all.

The Programme Committee is seeking contributions from the community.

This workshop will be a hybrid event.

Date - 6-7 February 2025
Location - Atlanta Marriott Marquis - Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Time zone - EST (UTC -5)
Co-located with NANOG 93

Deadline for Submissions - 2024-12-02 23:59 UTC

All DNS-related subjects and discussion topics are welcome although we're particularly
keen to hear about operational and security...

Re: Carrier Ethernet Demarc Joel Busch via NANOG (Nov 29)
I agree on the struggle with bad fiber, and we've had to use 100G ER4
"Lite" on links around 10km before too. But I think you are a little too
pessimistic with putting the limit of what NRZ can do at 10km.

From my experience 30km is also possible with NRZ. We have a few ER4
and ER4 "Lite", that is Flexoptix Q.161HG.40 and Q.161HG.25, running
between cities, with one span being a bit over 30km. That one is muxed...

Problem Statement about IPv6 Support for Multiple Routers and Multiple Interfaces (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-v6ops-multi-ipv6-00.txt) Fernando Gont (Nov 27)
Hi,

We've decided to bite the bullet, and have posted this IETF I-D:
"Problem Statement about IPv6 Support for Multiple Routers and Multiple
Interfaces"

HTMLized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-gont-v6ops-multi-ipv6
TXT: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-gont-v6ops-multi-ipv6-00.txt
Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gont-v6ops-multi-ipv6/

Feedback/discussion will be very appreciated.

Thanks!...

RE: Can an IXP sell IP transit? Kevin McCormick (Nov 27)
Bi-Lateral benefit is for when there is an issue with the route servers.

Example, Equinix IBX Chicago changed filtering policies shortly after ARIN introduced the new IRR database.

If your BGP peered customers had not created new entries in the new IRR database their routes were dropped.

This dumped a lot of IX traffic for us other than the few bi-laterals we had established.

We called all our BGP peered customers that day and they quickly...

Re: 2 undersea cables cut Ge DUPIN (Nov 27)
Right Mark !

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/europeansubseacablesassociation_two-subsea-cables-located-in-the-baltic-sea-activity-7265099222381727746-8xFX/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
European Subsea Cables Association sur LinkedIn : Two subsea cables located in the Baltic Sea have recently reported
faults.… | 18 commentaires
linkedin.com...

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Healthcare organizations face rising ransomware attacks – and are paying up Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/03/healthcare-ransomware-pay-sophos/

Healthcare organizations, already an attractive target for ransomware given
the highly sensitive data they hold, saw such attacks almost double between
2020 and 2021, according to a survey released this week by Sophos.

The outfit's team also found that while polled healthcare orgs are quite
likely to pay ransoms, they rarely get all of their data returned if they
do...

A digital conflict between Russia and Ukraine rages on behind the scenes of war Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
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SEATTLE — On the sidelines of a conference in Estonia on Wednesday, a
senior U.S. intelligence official told British outlet Sky News that the
U.S. is running offensive cyber operations in support of Ukraine.

“My job is to provide a series of options to the secretary of defense and
the president, and so that’s what I do,” said...

Researchers Uncover Malware Controlling Thousands of Sites in Parrot TDS Network Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
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The Parrot traffic direction system (TDS) that came to light earlier this
year has had a larger impact than previously thought, according to new
research.

Sucuri, which has been tracking the same campaign since February 2019 under
the name "NDSW/NDSX," said that "the malware was one of the top infections"
detected in 2021, accounting for more than...

FBI, CISA: Don't get caught in Karakurt's extortion web Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/03/fbi_cisa_warn_karakurt_extortion/

The Feds have warned organizations about a lesser-known extortion gang
Karakurt, which demands ransoms as high as $13 million and, some
cybersecurity folks say, may be linked to the notorious Conti crew.

In a joint advisory [PDF] this week, the FBI, CISA and US Treasury
Department outlined technical details about how Karakurt operates, along
with actions to take,...

DOJ Seizes 3 Web Domains Used to Sell Stolen Data and DDoS Services Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
https://thehackernews.com/2022/06/doj-seizes-3-web-domains-used-to-sell.html

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of
three domains used by cybercriminals to trade stolen personal information
and facilitate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for hire.

This includes weleakinfo[.]to, ipstress[.]in, and ovh-booter[.]com, the
former of which allowed its users to traffic hacked personal data and
offered a...

Chinese Hackers Begin Exploiting Latest Microsoft Office Zero-Day Vulnerability Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
https://thehackernews.com/2022/05/chinese-hackers-begin-exploiting-latest.html

An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor aligned with Chinese state
interests has been observed weaponizing the new zero-day flaw in Microsoft
Office to achieve code execution on affected systems.

"TA413 CN APT spotted [in-the-wild] exploiting the Follina zero-day using
URLs to deliver ZIP archives which contain Word Documents that use the
technique,"...

US military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
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US military hackers have conducted offensive operations in support of
Ukraine, the head of US Cyber Command has told Sky News.

In an exclusive interview, General Paul Nakasone also explained how "hunt
forward" operations were allowing the United States to search out foreign
hackers and identify...

SideWinder Hackers Launched Over a 1, 000 Cyber Attacks Over the Past 2 Years Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
https://thehackernews.com/2022/05/sidewinder-hackers-launched-over-1000.html

An "aggressive" advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as SideWinder
has been linked to over 1,000 new attacks since April 2020.

"Some of the main characteristics of this threat actor that make it stand
out among the others, are the sheer number, high frequency and persistence
of their attacks and the large collection of encrypted and obfuscated...

Hackers are Selling US University Credentials Online, FBI Says Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned US universities and colleges
that it has found banks of login credentials and other data relating to VPN
access circulating on cybercriminals forums.

The fear is that such data will be sold and subsequently used by malicious
actors to orchestrate attacks on other accounts owned by the same students,
in the hope...

Interpol Nabs 3 Nigerian Scammers Behind Malware-based Attacks Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
https://thehackernews.com/2022/05/interpol-nabs-3-nigerian-scammers.html

Interpol on Monday announced the arrest of three suspected global scammers
in Nigeria for using remote access trojans (RATs) such as Agent Tesla to
facilitate malware-enabled cyber fraud.

"The men are thought to have used the RAT to reroute financial
transactions, stealing confidential online connection details from
corporate organizations, including oil and gas...

U.S. Warns Against North Korean Hackers Posing as IT Freelancers Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
https://thehackernews.com/2022/05/us-warns-against-north-korean-hackers.html

Highly skilled software and mobile app developers from the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are posing as "non-DPRK nationals" in
hopes of landing freelance employment in an attempt to enable the regime's
malicious cyber intrusions.

That's according to a joint advisory from the U.S. Department of State, the
Department of the...

FBI and NSA say: Stop doing these 10 things that let the hackers in Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-and-nsa-say-stop-doing-these-10-things-that-let-the-hackers-in/

Cyber attackers regularly exploit unpatched software vulnerabilities, but
they "routinely" target security misconfigurations for initial access, so
the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its
peers have created a to-do list for defenders in today's heightened threat
environment.

CISA, the FBI and National...

Fifth of Businesses Say Cyber-Attack Nearly Broke Them Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fifth-of-businesses-cyber-attack/

A fifth of US and European businesses have warned that a serious
cyber-attack nearly rendered them insolvent, with most (87%) viewing
compromise as a bigger threat than an economic downturn, according to
Hiscox.

The insurer polled over 5000 businesses in the US, UK, Ireland, France,
Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium to compile its annual Hiscox
Cyber...

Hacker And Ransomware Designer Charged For Use And Sale Of Ransomware, And Profit Sharing Arrangements With Cybercriminals Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2022/05/16/hacker-and-ransomware-designer-charged-for-use-and-sale-of-ransomware-and-profit-sharing-arrangements-with-cybercriminals/

A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New
York, charging Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez (Zagala), also known as
“Nosophoros,” “Aesculapius” and “Nebuchadnezzar,” a citizen of France and
Venezuela who resides in Venezuela, with attempted...

State of Ransomware shows huge growth in threat and impacts Matthew Wheeler (May 04)
https://www.continuitycentral.com/index.php/news/technology/7275-state-of-ransomware-shows-huge-growth-in-threat-and-impacts

Sophos has released its annual survey and review of real-world ransomware
experiences in its ‘State of Ransomware 2022’ report. This shows that 66
percent of organizations surveyed were hit with ransomware in 2021, up from
37 percent in 2020.

The average ransom paid by organizations that had data encrypted in their...

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Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-12-03 Research via Snort-sigs (Dec 03)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-chrome,
file-image, malware-cnc, malware-other, policy-other, server-mail and
server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-11-26 Research via Snort-sigs (Nov 26)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-executable,
malware-cnc, policy-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide
coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort VRT rule Consulting 林馨 via Snort-sigs (Nov 21)
Hello, I want to buy Snort VRT rules, but I have purchased Proofpoint ET
Pro, whose rule set contains snort rules, and I am not sure whether the
rules in Proofpoint ET Pro include Snort VRT

Snort 2025 Wall Calendars are available now! Brendan Bell (brebell) via Snort-sigs (Nov 21)
The 2025 Snort Calendar has arrived! This year’s theme is Video Games! To get your copy of the 2025 Snort Calendar,
fill out our short survey here: https://ciscocx.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8vtgX1JTR9exUFM

Thanks,
Snort Team

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-11-21 Research via Snort-sigs (Nov 21)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-image,
malware-cnc and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

calender where do i get a 2025 snort Wall Calender? Please help Jenny Kie via Snort-sigs (Nov 20)
i would know how tp receive a snort Wall Calender my email where i can
be reached is JENKIE222 () aol com thank you,

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-11-19 Research via Snort-sigs (Nov 19)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-pdf,
malware-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-11-14 Research via Snort-sigs (Nov 14)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-firefox,
protocol-scada and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Rules Vicente Millan via Snort-sigs (Nov 13)
Good afternoon, I need some support. I use Snort for Pfsense on AWS Cloud and in addition to the rules we have, I need
to add or create others that monitor, inspect and alert/prevent covert malware communication channels. This is in order
to comply with PCI-DSS Version 4.01. If you can guide me in some way with some documentation on which rules I should
apply,

Thank you all.

Vicente Millán

Gerencia de Infraestructura
Consultor Senior...

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-11-12 Research via Snort-sigs (Nov 12)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
Talos is aware of vulnerabilities affecting products from Microsoft
Corporation.

Details:
Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2024-43451:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows SmartScreen that may
lead to spoofing.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with:
Snort 2: GID 1, SIDs 62022 through 62023,
Snort 3: GID 1, SID 300612....

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-11-07 Research via Snort-sigs (Nov 07)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-plugins and
server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-11-04 Research via Snort-sigs (Nov 04)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the and server-webapp
rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these
technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-10-31 Research via Snort-sigs (Oct 31)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the malware-cnc,
malware-other and server-other rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

possible false positive for 'INDICATOR-SHELLCODE x86 setgid 0' can someone confirm John via Snort-sigs (Oct 29)
When I attempt to download the following xz file, my IPS blocks it with the below populating the snort log. I suspect
this is a false positive unless there is some code in the xz file that is truly malicious. Can someone with more
knowledge about the rule please comment?

Link to file that triggers the match:
http://fl.us.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/armv7h/extra/qt5-base-5.15.15%2Bkde%2Br136-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz

Entry from snort log:...

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-10-29 Research via Snort-sigs (Oct 29)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-firefox,
malware-cnc, malware-other, os-linux and server-webapp rule sets to
provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

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