Emacs through BBS
summary
A researcher recounts discovering a vulnerability in old BBS software that allowed obtaining a shell. The talk demonstrates how legacy processes and services can act as defensive layers and explains that exploiting such vulnerabilities often involves more complex steps than expected.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:30Micro IMAX demo and history
- 8:28What are BBS?
- 14:38Terminal operation and demo
- 17:52Buffer overflow in Micro IMAX
- 21:30Morris worm history
- 25:05Little vs Big Endian
- 29:18Exploitation and limits
- 32:56Remote shell execution
- 35:28Summary
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