2008
12.25

This MIRV just wants to party.

I started blogging (on a different domain) a year ago, mainly as a way to share some of the interesting stuff I’d found while out on the network. I only posted here and there, and eventually tried to monetize it, which didn’t go over well with my gracious middle man host. I bought this domain, and moved all my stuff over. Everything seemed fine, until I tried to monetize it again… this time Google would have the last laugh however and they took everything I made from another type of 0-day release.

I kind of lost focus during that whole ordeal, and began posting crap… So, to try to make up for it, I’ve posted a few new bugs these last few days.

Here’s a roundup, along with 3 new ones:

phpLD 3.3 (page.php name) Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability
Link directories are cancer and should be treated as such.

ClaSS < =0.8.60 File Disclosure/Download
Not much to say here, but props to the dev guy who got the patch out in no time flat.

BloofoxCMS 0.3.4 File Inclusion
Nothing amazing, turn on JS if you can’t get it to work :)

Injader CMS 2.1.1 (id) Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability
Props to Ben for getting this all patched up and even going through to find some stuff I missed.

Constructr CMS < = 3.02.5 Stable Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
What happens when you develop your apps on a Mac?

2008
12.24

Bah?

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Time to get a little off topic. The pic isn’t me, but a recent addition to flickr (little black bars are mine) that pretty much sums it up for most of you.
Anyone else noticed the general feeling of bah-humbuggery lately? I don’t really get into this holiday thing, but it seems to me that people around here are down in the dumps so to speak. I drove around looking at the lights the other day and noticed a very distinct lack of effort from the usual “keeping up with the Joneses” types. Like Halloween, you can usually find the best stuff in the “rich neighborhoods” but this year’s lack of participation was very apparent. I’d say less than half of the houses seen had not been decorated at all. It was very strange.

I’ve boiled it down to one or more of three possible reasons, and I have an opinion for each:

  1. No one lives in those expensive houses any more.
  2. They all went “Eco”
  3. Black Christmas aka “Apocalypse Fever”

The first one is rather self explanatory, and probably the most reasonable assumption given the current economy and housing crisis. The likelihood of the second reason is somewhat diminished by the fact that many of these are the same people that drive their Hummers to Wal-mart. The third, (and the second, to a lesser degree) has a lot to do with the predominantly white republican devout Christians that live around here. Think the whole end of Religulous, but concentrated in one sermon every Sunday. This kind of “waiting for the end times” is the great unspoken ideal around here and probably near you as well, you just might not notice it. I envision a Pat-Robertson-esque father telling his children that Christmas is canceled because the rest of American voted in a black guy and something about the seven signs or wtf ever… maybe not the best vision to put in your head… sorry, I thought you needed something to replace the missing sugar plums :)

Maybe the whole thing comes down to a serious lack of marketing. Maybe the general feeling of Holiday Cheer® and commercial bombardment just go hand in hand. This year, instead of Tickle-me-Elmo’s, we have Cut-my-Wrist-Emo… and (s)he comes with a black Christmas tree:

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I think its time for my annual reminder for those in the marketing industry. I think you know what to do, and you can take your little emo spawn with you. Now if you’ll pardon me, I have some kids to kick off my lawn…