RC RANDOM CHAOS

resource-exhaustion

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Your image parser is a remote kill switch
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Your image parser is a remote kill switch

Codex Micro's unvalidated image upload endpoint decodes attacker-controlled rasters in-band with a check-then-act race, enabling CWE-400/CWE-770 resource exhaustion.

htop is a reconnaissance surface
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htop is a reconnaissance surface

How htop and top expose Linux resource contention - OOM-killer steering, D-state telemetry gaps, niced miners, and PID exhaustion mapped to MITRE T1562 and T1499.

This isn't a bug. It's the default.
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This isn't a bug. It's the default.

Codex writes unbounded session logs to local SSDs. Mapped correctly to MITRE T1499, not T1071 - a disk-exhaustion DoS primitive EDR baselines miss.