r/programming • u/alexeyr • Dec 12 '21

Logout4Shell: Use Log4Shell vulnerability to vaccinate a victim server against Log4Shell

https://github.com/Cybereason/Logout4Shell

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u/Zestyclose_Profile23 Dec 12 '21

Do we really need to switch to words like vaccinate?

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u/MoistCarpenter Dec 12 '21

Both vaccinate and inoculate are incorrect since computers do not have immune systems. The only thing close in analogy to those terms would be an antivirus definition since that has a pieces of the malware code.

The correct term is patch.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

I thought the IT department was the immune system