Lennart Poettering intends to replace "sudo" with #systemd's run0. Here's a quick PoC to demonstrate root permission hijacking by exploiting the fact "systemd-run" (the basis of uid0/run0, the sudo replacer) creates a user owned pty for communication with the new "root" process.

This isn't the only bug of course, it's not possible on Linux to read the environment of a root owned process but as systemd creates a service in the system slice, you can query D-BUS and learn sensitive information passed to the process env, such as API keys or other secrets.

https://fixupx.com/hackerfantastic/status/1785495587514638559

Nitter mirror: https://xcancel.com/hackerfantastic/status/1785495587514638559

Here are some links about #systemd #alternatives for #Linux in no particular order.
Which are your favorite alternatives and distros?

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems

https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/

https://unixsheikh.com/articles/the-real-motivation-behind-systemd.html

https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/

https://nosystemd.org/

https://skarnet.org/software/systemd.html

https://the-world-after-systemd.ungleich.ch/

https://ewontfix.com/14/

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=120652

https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/

https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom

https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/linux-systemd-exploit.html

https://judecnelson.blogspot.com/2014/09/systemd-biggest-fallacies.html

https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/systemd-it-keeps-getting-worse/

https://systemd-free.artixlinux.org/why.php

Some more added here too: https://start.me/p/Kg8keE/priv-sec

#systemd #Linux

USB #WiFi Adapter Information for #Linux

https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi

Warning for #Android gapps traitors:

Uninstall the application: Android System SafetyCore, which has been automatically installed on most devices. It is used by Google to scan your data, just like Apple has been doing on iOS, but you have the choice to uninstall it. If you don't have it yet, watch out for it being installed silently over the next few days!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.safetycore

Be careful on GrapheneOS too if you have Google services installed.

While GrapheneOS will stop it from auto installing, it can nag you about installing it. And it won't tell you what it really is. Nor will most online resources.

Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: stop Play Store from attempting to auto-install some system component packages, such as "Android System SafetyCore" (com.google.android.safetycore) and "Android System Key Verifier" (com.google.android.contactkeys)

https://grapheneos.org/releases

The phone is asking me to install this app, anyone knows information about if its truly need it or not? Im with the Google Play Services sandbox install

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/19193-android-system-safety-core

If you don't have GrapheneOS, it's going to automatically install itself again at some point after uninstalling it.

Locating the App
Go to Settings → Apps (or Apps & Notifications) → Show system apps. Look for “Android System SafetyCore.”
Check whether the app has any special permissions (e.g., internet access).

Uninstalling or Disabling
In many cases, you can uninstall an update or at least disable the app. Check the available options in the app info.

This is client side scanning. It's a way to spy on your device before it's encrypted.

Other information on the topic:
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-messages-nudes-3499420/
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-system-key-verifier-3499353/

The functionality provided by Google's new Android System SafetyCore app available through the Play Store is covered here:
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/5-new-protections-on-google-messages.html
Neither this app or the Google Messages app using it are part of GrapheneOS and neither will be, but GrapheneOS users can choose to install and use both. Google Messages still works without the new app.
The app doesn't provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users.
It's unfortunate that it's not open source and released as part of the Android Open Source Project and the models also aren't open let alone open source. It won't be available to GrapheneOS users unless they go out of the way to install it.
We'd have no problem with having local neural network features for users, but they'd have to be open source. We wouldn't want anything saving state by default. It'd have to be open source to be included as a feature in GrapheneOS though, and none of it has been so it's not included.
Google Messages uses this new app to classify messages as spam, malware, nudity, etc. Nudity detection is an optional feature which blurs media detected as having nudity and makes accessing it require going through a dialog.
Apps have been able to ship local AI models to do classification forever. Most apps do it remotely by sharing content with their servers. Many apps have already have client or server side detection of spam, malware, scams, nudity, etc.
Classifying things like this is not the same as trying to detect illegal content and reporting it to a service. That would greatly violate people's privacy in multiple ways and false positives would still exist. It's not what this is and it's not usable for it.
GrapheneOS has all the standard hardware acceleration support for neural networks but we don't have anything using it. All of the features they've used it for in the Pixel OS are in closed source Google apps. A lot is Pixel exclusive. The features work if people install the apps.

https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1888280836426084502

#Systemd Adding The Ability to Boot Directly Into A Disk Image Downloaded Via HTTP

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-disk-image-boot-HTTP

#Linux #backdoor

Krita

Free and open source digital painting application. It is for artists who want to create professional work from start to end. Krita is used by comic book artists, illustrators, concept artists, matte and texture painters and in the digital VFX industry.

https://krita.org

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita

Download
https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/graphics/krita/

#AI plugin
https://kritaaidiffusion.com

#krita #image #editor #paint

kitty

The fast, feature-rich, GPU based #terminal emulator

Uses GPU and SIMD vector CPU instructions for best in class
Uses threaded rendering for absolutely minimal latency
Performance tradeoffs can be tuned
Capable Scriptable Composable Cross-platform Innovative
To get started see Quickstart.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

With software, such as "Kitty", it is possible to read documents, images and other graphical formats with these software:

https://github.com/dsanson/termpdf.py
http://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/
https://github.com/itsjunetime/tdf

It means, that we no longer need GTK+ (which dropped support for X11), Qt and other graphical toolkits in order to have a full operational computer.

SmartTube

Advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS

Features
No Ads
Designed for TV screens
Up to 8K video resolution
Login into your account
Cast from the phone
Support tv box remote controller
Support external software keyboard
Support devices without Google Services
Open source

https://smarttubeapp.github.io

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases

WARNING NOT FULLY OPEN SOURCE
There are at least 5 proprietary libraries in the app.
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/issues/471

* Crashlytics (/com/crashlytics): Tracking
* Firebase Data Transport (/com/google/android/datatransport): NonFreeNet
* Google Mobile Services (/com/google/android/gms): NonFreeDep
* Firebase (/com/google/firebase): NonFreeNet,NonFreeDep
* Firebase Analytics (/com/google/firebase/analytics): Tracking

IzzySoft:
The 5 offenders are not permitted at F-Droid (and before you ask: I wouldn't take it into my repo either unless at least Crashlytics and Firebase Analytics are removed; 5 non-free libraries is a bit much for free/libre software).

#video #yt #androidtv

ReVanced

https://revanced.app

Download
https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/releases

ReVanced Documentation
https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-documentation

Patches
https://revanced.app/patches

https://github.com/revanced

https://t.me/app_revanced


Revanced magisk module

https://github.com/j-hc/revanced-magisk-module

https://t.me/rvc_magisk

#revanced #vanced #video #yt #android