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Dirty pipe.. how about "sewerbleed"?

• mjevans 5y ago
  The exploit involves DIRTY (should be written back to disk) memory pages attached to a PIPE between processes.
  • alanbernstein 5y ago
    Yes... sewers are dirty pipes. "sewerbleed" is funnier than "dirty pipe", and it matches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed.
    • mjevans 5y ago
      We all got the reference you were making; the problem is 'heart' 'bleed' is based around what could be considered the heart (rather than as is normally said, the brain) of a computer 'bleeding' data from one context to another. In both cases the researchers chose sort of punny names that were also self descriptive and obvious once you read how to produce the exploit. 'Dirty Pipe' is literally the recipe for this exploit / corruption. Maybe your name seems funny to you for some reason that isn't obvious / shared.