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warbosstodd@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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We Found a Ticking Time Bomb in macOS TCP Networking - It Detonates After Exactly 49 Days - Photon Blog

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    I can tell it’s some 32-bit millisecond counter without even opening the article. 49 days period is too specific.

    And since I did not hear anything about MacOS network stack catastrophically breaking on any servers, the impact should be small.

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      The article describes how they immediately went to look for an unsigned 32-bit millisecond counter when they noticed it was happening around 50 days since last reboot, because they already knew that association you describe.

      Interesting writeup. Fun little story about the detective work involved.

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      49 days period is too specific.

      49.7 days is also the maximum uptime for Windows 95 and 98.

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        No it’s not.

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          https://www.cnet.com/culture/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-days/

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