brent timothy saner on 10 Apr 2018 13:09:01 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] processes hanging out


On 04/10/2018 03:45 PM, jeff wrote:
> On 04/10/2018 12:19 PM, brent timothy saner wrote:
>> that... sounds like a comp.
>>
>> it's literally "CRED-TCA-RDNU-MBER"? as in "CREDIT CARD NUMBER"? or it's
>> some sort of random UUID?
> 
> It seemed to fit the format :)
> Random.

WHEW. yeah. probably a UUID4[0] then. i thought it was that exact
string. lol.

> 
>> that should give you a good place to start in at least figuring out
>> what's going on.
> 
> parent: systemd, 1 splash, [same for next process: initctl]
> 
> Appreciate the direction - thanks.

no problem! if it IS a UUID4, then this sounds a lot like it's systemd's
PrivateTmp:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html
https://access.redhat.com/blogs/766093/posts/1976243
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/security.html




[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122
    http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/
    https://linux.die.net/man/3/libuuid
    https://docs.python.org/3/library/uuid.html
    etc.

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