Taggart :donor: on Nostr: A note on fuzzing: although we discovered this buffer overflow manually, we later ...

A note on fuzzing: although we discovered this buffer overflow manually, we later tried to fuzz the vulnerable function, parse_tunables(); both AFL++ and libFuzzer re-discovered this overflow in less than a second, when provided with a dictionary of tunables (which can be compiled by running "ld.so --list-tunables"But tell me again how it's fine that we keep using memory-unsafe languages.🙄

Full technical writeup: https://www.qualys.com/2023/10/03/cve-2023-4911/looney-tunables-local-privilege-escalation-glibc-ld-so.txt