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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Anybody want to talk about Dirty Cow? Post 302984395 by hicksd8 on Tuesday 25th of October 2016 11:57:18 AM
Old 10-25-2016
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Users of the Linux operating system are being urged to update it to remove a "serious" bug that hackers could use to hijack systems.
Known as the Dirty Cow bug, the vulnerability has been present in many versions of Linux for almost a decade.
The warnings come as malicious hackers start exploiting it to take over vulnerable computers.
The vulnerability gets its name from the Linux sub-system, called Copy-On-Write or COW, in which it appears.
Updated versions of Linux that no longer suffer the bug are now being widely distributed. Millions of computers, including a majority of web servers, run Linux or one of its variants.


"The nature of the vulnerability lends itself to extremely reliable exploitation," Dan Rosenberg, a security researcher at Azimuth Security, told tech news site Ars Technica. He added that it was the "most serious" bug of its type ever found in Linux.
The vulnerability allows attackers to steadily increase the amount of control they can exert over a target system.
Security expert Graham Cluley said the bug was of a type that did not normally prompt action because they were less likely to be exploited. However, he said, Dirty Cow should be taken seriously because there was some evidence that it was being actively abused.
Attack code that capitalised on the weakly protected sub-system was captured by developer Phil Oester as it was used in an attempt to take over a server he runs.
Mr Oester told the V3 tech news site that the vulnerability was easy to use and was "almost certain" to be more widely used by cyberthieves.
 

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ID3_GET_TAG(3)								 1							    ID3_GET_TAG(3)

id3_get_tag - Get all information stored in an ID3 tag

SYNOPSIS
array id3_get_tag (string $filename, [int $version = ID3_BEST]) DESCRIPTION
id3_get_tag(3) is used to get all information stored in the id3 tag of the specified file. PARAMETERS
o $filename - The path to the MP3 file Instead of a filename you may also pass a valid stream resource o $version - Allows you to specify the version of the tag as MP3 files may contain both, version 1.x and version 2.x tags Since version 0.2 id3_get_tag(3) also supports ID3 tags of version 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4. To extract information from these tags, pass one of the con- stants ID3_V2_2, ID3_V2_3 or ID3_V2_4 as the second parameter. ID3 v2.x tags can contain a lot more information about the MP3 file than ID3 v1.x tags. RETURN VALUES
Returns an associative array with various keys like: title, artist, .. The key genre will contain an integer between 0 and 147. You may use id3_get_genre_name(3) to convert it to a human readable string. EXAMPLES
Example #1 id3_get_tag(3) example <?php $tag = id3_get_tag( "path/to/example.mp3" ); print_r($tag); ?> The above example will output something similar to: Array ( [title] => DN-38416 [artist] => Re:Legion [album] => Reflections [year] => 2004 [genre] => 19 ) Example #2 id3_get_tag(3) example <?php $tag = id3_get_tag( "path/to/example2.mp3", ID3_V2_3 ); print_r($tag); ?> The above example will output something similar to: Array ( [copyright] => Dirty Mac [originalArtist] => Dirty Mac [composer] => Marcus Gotze [artist] => Dirty Mac [title] => Little Big Man [album] => Demo-Tape [track] => 5/12 [genre] => (17)Rock [year] => 2001 ) SEE ALSO
id3_set_tag(3), id3_remove_tag(3), id3_get_version(3). PHP Documentation Group ID3_GET_TAG(3)
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