Sitting at the airport in Vancouver on my way back home. It’s going to be good to go back to sunny California. It’s pretty gloomy out here with occasional rain and snow. But anyways, I had a blast at the conference and thank to Dragos and Yuriko (and I’m sure countless others that I don’t know about) for organizing this. It was also good to meet people that I’ve exchanged emails with.
Archive for March 2008
Ruby XDR parser
XDR, as specified in rfc-4506, forms the underpinnings of Mount, NFS, NFS4 and a host of other protocols. Broadly all of this can be grouped under Sun RPC for implementing Remote Procedure Calls.
The XDR is truly an IDL (Interface Definition Language) for a Sun RPC service. On most *nix operating systems you will find a set of .x files located in:
/usr/include/rpcsvc/
that specify how to talk to these services.
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Multiple buffer overflows in Asterisk
The Mu Security Research Team released advisory “MU-200803-01â€? today. Details: MU-200803-01
