A default password, which only the vendor can change. FTP, telnet, and rexec. In 2020. Tell me, why do we bother worrying about sophisticated attacks?https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1336357635172524035 …
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I’m afraid to look more closely, but the article said “Unix-based”, not Linux—and I don’t know if any Unix systems had ASLR or stack canaries. Am I implying that this code base has buffer overflows? No, but given what we already know I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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"Unix-based" sometimes refers to things like the xBSD distributions which support POSIX APIs well, even though all original UNIX(TM) code was carefully stripped out. So that phrase is less of a sign of obsolete code than, say, "telnet still in use".
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