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Beyond the Limit: Expanding single-packet race condition with a first sequence sync for breaking the 65,535 byte limit

source: https://flatt.tech/research/posts/beyond-the-limit-expanding-single-packet-race-condition-with-first-sequence-sync/

To overcome the limitation of a single packet attack, I used IP fragmentation and TCP sequence number reordering.

Using IP layer fragmentation, a single TCP packet can be split into multiple IP packets, which allows the full utilization of the TCP window size.
Additionally, by re-ordering the TCP sequence numbers, I prevented the target server from processing any of the TCP packets until I sent the final packet.

Thanks to these techniques, we can significantly exploit a minor limit-overrun vulnerability, potentially leading to severe vulnerabilities like the authentication bypass of one-time token authentication. During testing, I was able to send 10,000 requests in about 166ms.

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Beyond the Limit: Expanding single-packet race condition with a first sequence sync for breaking the 65,535 byte limit

Introduction Hello, I’m RyotaK (@ryotkak ), a security engineer at Flatt Security Inc. In 2023, James Kettle of PortSwigger published an excellent paper titled Smashing the state machine: the true potential of web race conditions. In the paper, he...

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A quotation from Jung

Mistakes are, after all, the foundation of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Carl Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychologist
Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, ch. 15 “Conclusion,” ¶ 429 (1959; 1968 ed.) [tr. Hull]

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Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, ch. 15 "Conclusion," ¶ 429 (1959; 1968 ed.) [tr. Hull] - Jung, Carl | WIST Quotations

Mistakes are, after all, the foundation of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. Final words.

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#Algorithms of #Resistance: The Everyday #Fight against Platform #Power

Download #eBook - pdf: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5721/Algorithms-of-ResistanceThe-Everyday-Fight-against

Algorithms are all around us, permeating more and more aspects of our daily lives. While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, Algorithms of Resistance shows how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains. Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life: gig work, cultural industries, and politics. They reveal how forms of algorithmic agency and resistance are endemic and mundane and how the platform society is a contested battleground of contrasting forces.

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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:

  1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
  2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
  3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
  4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavour to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
  5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
  6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
  7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
  8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
  9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
  10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“The Best Answer to Fanaticism: Liberalism,” New York Times Magazine (1951-12-16)

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"The Best Answer to Fanaticism: Liberalism," New York Times Magazine (1951-12-16) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows: Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to...

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How useful is an #election in a democratic #system where many only vote for the candidate so that #Trump does not come to #power again?

Progressive politics, which is committed to social #justice and the preservation of our livelihood, must necessarily redistribute #wealth and restructure our #economy, which should actually be possible for the majority because it serves the majority, but the concrete actions always get in the way of the #profit interests of some very powerful actors, who have therefore been involved since the beginning of #humanity itself and with the help of their lobbyists: Liberal or right-wing parties, media corporations, social #media platforms, think tanks, #lobby associations and #astroturf movements - front against these policies and in this fight do not shy away from stirring up racist, sexist and social-darvinist resentment in order to lead voters down wrong paths that harm the general public but protect the profit interests of the few.

#democracy #vote #politics #corruption #problem #criticism #fail #future #finance #capitalism #money #quote #wisdom #knowledge #conspiracy #racism #sexism

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A quotation from Johnson, Lyndon

If we turn away from knowledge and truth, we will not succeed. If we believe the worst and suspect the best, we alone will suffer. If we deny our progress, if we are against all of it, if we tear down our accomplishments, we will fill the world with sorrow, and we will blemish our own name with shame.

But if we are courageous and farsighted and farseeing, if we have no fear of the truth, if we seek only after light, then we and our children and our children’s children shall know the greatness of this wonderful, beautiful land we call America.

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) American politician, educator, US President (1963-69)
Speech (1964-09-28), Convocation, Brown University

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Speech (1964-09-28), Convocation, Brown University - Johnson, Lyndon | WIST Quotations

If we turn away from knowledge and truth, we will not succeed. If we believe the worst and suspect the best, we alone will suffer. If we deny our progress, if we are against all of it, if we tear down our accomplishments, we will fill the world...

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