Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, December 13th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Tech. Really bad news over the week. tech.

Really bad news over the weekend, a vulnerability in the Apache Log4J Java Logging Library was discovered that allows for remote code execution and

impacting everything from steam to iCloud to Minecraft and all sorts of services.

In fact, this was first discovered by Minecraft users and look it basically affects everything

I've even heard tour servers are being unmasked quoting Arse Technica word of the vulnerability first came to light on sites catering to users of Minecraft the best-selling

game of all time.

The sites warned that hackers could execute malicious code on servers or clients running the

Java version of Minecraft by manipulating log messages

including from things typed in chat messages.

The picture became more dire still as Log 4J was identified as the source of the vulnerability and exploit code was discovered

posted online. Log 4J is incorporated into a host of popular frameworks including Apache Struts 2, Apache Solar, Apache Druid, and Apache

Flink, that means a dizzying number of third-party apps may also be vulnerable to exploits

of the same high severity as those threatening

Minecraft users.

Researchers said the Java desirialization bug

stems from Log 4J making network requests

through the JNDI to an LDAP server and executing any code that's

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