We Found a Ticking Time Bomb in macOS TCP Networking — It Detonates After Exactly 49 Days (photon.codes)

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[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 16 points 5 days ago

The only recovery was a reboot — which just restarted the 49.7-day countdown.

Saying 'time bomb' made me think this was unfixable after the expiration happened.

Pings still worked. Existing connections stayed alive. But anything that needed a new TCP socket simply failed.

Sounds like system admin hell for servers running on a string.

[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Just keep a SSH connection open.

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