deepbreath

2년 전discuss

The knockee PoC should also be straightforward, can use socat + udp-listen + fork with a script that checks that input matches `sha1sum(secret||num)||num` and `num>previously_seen_num`, and if so, adds an iptables rule.

This should prevent against replays. Throw in some rate limits somewhere maybe to not get DDoSed, especially if you let socat `fork`.

deepbreath

2년 전discuss

Don't have to do anything too complicated. Here's the knocker code in a short Bash script, produced by GPT4:

~ % gpt4 'write a very short bash script that takes the number stored in ~/.ssh/knock_seq, increments it by 1 and saves it to the file. It then takes the new number and concatenates it with the value stored in the file ~/.ssh/secret. It pipes the resulting string to sha1sum, spitting out binary. It then takes both the resulting sha1sum and the number used and pipes their concatenation to "nc -u $host $(cat ~/.ssh/knocking_port)". be brief'

  knock_seq=$(cat ~/.ssh/knock_seq)
  let knock_seq++
  echo $knock_seq > ~/.ssh/knock_seq
  concat_seq_secret=$(echo -n "${knock_seq}$(cat ~/.ssh/secret)")
  sha1_output=$(echo -n $concat_seq_secret | sha1sum -b | awk '{print $1}')
  final_output="${sha1_output}${knock_seq}"
  host=localhost
  knocking_port=$(cat ~/.ssh/knocking_port)
  echo -n $final_output | nc -u $host $knocking_port

deepbreath

2년 전discuss

> At the point an attacker has remote code execution

The attacker doesn't have remote code execution in the xz case unless they can speak to your port 22. Port knocking prevents them from doing so, provided they don't know how to knock.

deepbreath

7년 전discuss

Not thinkpad x1 carbon

deepbreath

7년 전discuss

I committed the grave mistake of purchasing a laptop with only 8GB ram and I constantly run out of memory as a result. When it happens, I just repeatedly mash alt+sysrq+f until it kills off some chromium tabs and unfreezes my machine. It essentially behaves like one of those extensions that lets you unload tabs. If needed, you can get the tab back by just reloading the page. The machine slows down to a crawl at 96% usage, and freezes at 97% usage (according to my i3 bar).

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