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The Roman Mars Mazda Virus
- mlevental 8y agoExecutive summary: late model mazda 6 entertainment consoles apparently don't escape text and parse the % in "99% invisible" as ... something. I'd be interested to know what people think this might be.
- ufo 8y agoI think the most likely explanation is that the podcast name is being treated as a printf format string, something they mentioned in the show but erroneously dismissed. "% In" would be parsed as a "%n" directive, which can write arbritrary memory addresses and easily lead to a crash. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/printf.3.html http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/printf.3.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_format_string https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_format_string
- chupa-chups 8y agoPrevious topics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19636858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19636858 (2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634169 (2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632890 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632890 (2 days ago)