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This forum is provided to promote discussion amongst students enrolled in CITS3007 Secure Coding. If posting a question, it's suggested you check first whether your question is answered in the unit Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list, and use the search box (on the right) to see if an answer to your question has already been posted.

Please consider offering answers and suggestions to help other students! And if you fix a problem by following a suggestion here, it would be great if other interested students could see a short "Great, fixed it!"  followup message.

Note that any posts must comply with the UWA Code of Conduct and the UWA Academic Conduct Policy. That means you should (a) treat everyone with respect and courtesy, and (b) not post your solutions to an assessment that's in progress.

If asking a programming question, it's recommended you read How do I ask a good question? If reporting or troubleshooting a bug in software used in the unit, it's recommend you read How to report bugs effectively.
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 UWA week 16 (1st semester, week 7) ↓
SVG not supported 3:41pm Tue 16th Apr, ANONYMOUS

Also tried downloading dash but it says its already installed before showing the same error again. This is on the correct Vagrant file as well.


SVG not supported 3:40pm Tue 16th Apr, ANONYMOUS

Hi everyone ) I'm currently having some issues while attempting Lab 5. Every time I try to install zsh, I encounter a whole lot of errors which I have attached as an image below. Then when I attempt to switch from dash to zsh and run 'sh --version', ...


 UWA week 15 (1st semester, week 6) ↓
SVG not supported 12:35pm Tue 9th Apr, Arran S.

Hi all, Just a reminder that if for some reason you're regularly unable to attend a lab session, you should email me and let me know. Keeping up with the lab content is an important part of the unit, and (especially for the project) it's a good idea to...


SVG not supported 11:00am Tue 9th Apr, Arran S.

Hi all, I'll discuss the upcoming mid-semester test and the project a bit more in tomorrow's lecture, but here is some basic information about them. Mid-sem test The test will have mostly multi choice and short answer questions, similar to the week ...


 UWA week 14 (1st semester, non-teaching week) ↓
SVG not supported 5:34pm Wed 3rd Apr, Arran S.

Hi all, Over the Easter weekend, malicious code ( CVE-2024-3094 cve ) was discovered in the popular XZ Utils xz compression package which created a backdoor bd into affected Linux systems. The incident has been very widely reported in technical...


 UWA week 13 (1st semester, week 5) ↓
SVG not supported 5:17pm Thu 28th Mar, Arran S.

Hi all, Marks for the quiz are now available on csmarks (https secure.csse.uwa.edu.au run csmarks), and feedback on individual questions should be viewable on Moodle. The average mark for the quiz was 85 , which is excellent. Except for the very las...


SVG not supported 5:18pm Wed 27th Mar, Arran S.

Hi all, As mentioned in today's lecture, the 8am Thursday lab sessions have had very low turnout (only one person last week), which means it's difficult to justify running them. I'll therefore be cancelling that lab slot after this week - if you were ...


SVG not supported 10:27am Wed 27th Mar, Arran S.

Hi all - Apologies for the delay. Just letting you know that quiz marks should be available either later today or tomorrow. Cheers Arran


 UWA week 12 (1st semester, week 4) ↓
SVG not supported 5:36pm Thu 21st Mar, Arran S.

Hi all, The quiz has now closed, and it looks like the average is fairly high, which is great I take it to mean people have a pretty good understanding of basic concepts. (Or that I made the questions too easy.) As per the rubric rubric , short a...


SVG not supported 10:44am Thu 21st Mar, Arran S.

Hi all, Just a reminder regarding student conduct requirements. I allow a fair bit of flexibility regarding when students sit the online tests they can be started at any convenient time in a 24-hour block. However, students must still comply with th...


SVG not supported 10:12am Wed 20th Mar, Arran S.

Hi all, I won't be holding my usual office hours (4-5pm) today, as I'll be preparing to release the Moodle quiz (worth 5 ) that opens at 5pm. I'll discuss the quiz more in today's lecture, but there are some tips and instructions here quiz if needed...


SVG not supported 1:47pm Tue 19th Mar, Arran S.

Can you clarify exactly what it is you don't understand? Otherwise it's difficult for me to know what needs explaining. (In future, it would also be helpful if you gave the exact slide number you're referring to.) However, I do note that you've quoted...


SVG not supported 12:57pm Tue 19th Mar, Arran S.

I'd suggest working through (and reviewing) the lecture and lab content, first, and referring to the recommended readings if anything is unclear. There are a few topics which are often poorly understood, though, namely - setuid programs, and - integer ...


SVG not supported 12:48pm Tue 19th Mar, Arran S.

There are no incompatibilities between the libvirt disk image and the virtualbox disk image. They contain exactly the same software packages, running on exactly the same Linux kernel, on exactly the same (virtualised) hardware. The hostname (stor...


SVG not supported 12:47pm Tue 19th Mar, Arran S.

Glad to hear you got things working. I'll add the username and password details to the lab sheet. Cheers, Arran


SVG not supported 4:17pm Mon 18th Mar, Henuka D.

WAIT Less stop By following the instructions on https cits3007.github.io labs lab01-utm.html, the .box file they get us to download is from the libvirt provider (you can see this by looking at the URL for the box, https ...


SVG not supported 3:13pm Mon 18th Mar, ANONYMOUS

Hi. In the last lecture, it was said that " buf is a local variable, that s in the current stack frame. The other variables in this code are local variables. Those variables are overwritten, then the return address is overwritten, and then the ...


SVG not supported 3:10pm Mon 18th Mar, ANONYMOUS

Hi. How necessary are the readings? Hypothetically, if a student could only do one, should they ensure that they understand the lecture and lab content, or should they ensure that they've read all of the readings?


 UWA week 11 (1st semester, week 3) ↓
SVG not supported 11:59am Sun 17th Mar, Henuka D.

YESSSSS I FINALLY DID IT WOO D D D Less gooo I've been trying this for HOURS But what you said was exactly what I was looking for I didn't realise that the other link that existed in the lab 1 worksheet here (https...


SVG not supported 4:44pm Thu 14th Mar, Arran S.

Hi all, Just a reminder that the first assessment (an online Moodle quiz, worth 5 ) will be run next week, so you should make sure you've signed up for Moodle and reviewed the content for weeks 1 3. Participating in the quiz is restricted to enrolle...

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