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[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 41 points 1 year ago

TL;DR

sudo rm -rf /* # can't have problems without a system
[-] fxt_ryknow@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Copy. Paste. Enter.

[-] Goun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

System administrators hate this trick!

[-] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 23 points 1 year ago

Ok, this is a very good cheat sheet

[-] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 points 1 year ago

Thefuck is a cool program, but I stopped using it because it was slow.

[-] fluckx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I haven't had as much luck with that program as I'd like to. :(

[-] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

My .bash_history using this program...

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sites like this are neat until you remember that curl's willingness to write ansi escape codes to stdout when it is a tty (as this site relies on to format the output when the user agent is curl) is actually a security vulnerability.

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Could you give me an ELI5 please

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This post The Terminal Escapes: Engineering unexpected execution from command line interfaces has a summary of the longer paper in the first link.

tldr: There are a variety of ways that attackers can cause you to execute execute arbitrary code when you echo their maliciously-crafted data to your terminal. Therefore, when you run curl without redirecting its output, or when you cat a file you've downloaded, you're trusting the server (and also the network, when you don't have https:// in the url) not to exploit you.

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Ah ok that makes sense, thank you!

[-] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

I'm more-inclined to blame a virtual terminal than the program writing the sequences if there's an exploit there.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Of course the terminal emulators are ultimately to blame but when there are so many problems in so many of them, imo curl's default behavior should be to filter its output when writing to a tty.

[-] kraniax@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 year ago

is there a curl argument that can be used to block this behavior?

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You can redirect curl's output to a file with the -o filename option (or with > filename for shell redirection). But in the case of sites like this which output ansi-escape-formatted data that isn't very useful.

Also, after saving unknown data to a file it's common to look at it with less or perhaps xxd or strings or file ... all of which have had their own CVEs in recent years 🤦

Computer security is a fractal of bad news.

[-] Administrator 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
cheat() {
  curl cht.sh/$1
}
[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago
[-] stifle867@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Appears to be the same developer as wttr.in

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

IIRC this site uses TLDR pages

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