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Systemd-resolved DNS configuration for VPN

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Some guidance about configuring/fixing domain name resolution with a corporate Virtual Private Network (VPN), especially OpenVPN and with systemd-based Linux systems. This configuration uses the internal/private corporate resolvers for resolving internal/private domain names while using the ISP resolver for general domain names. This might help if your VPN is struggling these days because of the COVID-19 threat 😷.

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Disk usage with FlameGraph

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Using FlameGraph for displaying disk usage.

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Using dig as a LLMNR or mDNS CLI lookup utility

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I was looking for a LLMNR commandline lookup utility. Actually, dig can do the job quite fine.

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Surprising shell pathname expansion

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I thought I was understanding pretty well how bash argument processing and various expansions is supposed to behave. Apparently, there are still subtleties which tricks me, sometimes.

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Remote code execution via cross site request forgery in InternetCube and YunoHost

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How I found remote code execution vulnerabilities via Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) on the administration interfaces of InternetCube applications and of the YunoHost administration interface which could have been used to execute arbitrary code as root. These vulnerabilities were fixed in YunoHost 3.3, OpenVPN Client app 1.3.0. and YunoHost 3.4.

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My document generation workflow with Markdown, YAML, Jinja2 and WeasyPrint

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Here is the workflow I am using to generate simple text documents (resume, cover letters, etc.) from Markdown, YAML and Jinja2 templates.

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IP address spoofing in order to watch South Park

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Trying to bring back some old IP spoofing Firefox extension for watching South Park episodes.

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More example of argument and shell command injections in browser invocation

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In the previous episode, I talked about some argument and shell command injections vulnerabilities through URIs passed to browsers. Here I am evaluating some other CVEs which were registered at the same time (not by me).

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Argument and shell command injections in browser invocation

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I found an argument injection vulnerability related to the handling of the BROWSER environment variable in sensible-browser. This lead me (and others) to a a few other argument and shell command injection vulnerabilities in BROWSER processing and browser invocation in general.

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Sibling tail call optimization in Python

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In Tail Recursion In Python, Chris Penner implements (self) tail-call optimization (TCO) in Python using a function decorator. Here I am extending the approach for sibling calls.

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