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We Found a Ticking Time Bomb in macOS TCP Networking — It Detonates After Exactly 49 Days (photon.codes)

submitted 1 month ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only recovery was a reboot — which just restarted the 49.7-day countdown.

Saying 'time bomb' made me think this was unfixable after the expiration happened.

Pings still worked. Existing connections stayed alive. But anything that needed a new TCP socket simply failed.

Sounds like system admin hell for servers running on a string.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Just keep a SSH connection open.