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[$] Handling messy pull-request diffstats
Subsystem maintainers routinely use git request-pull as part of the process of sending work upstream. Normally, the result includes a list of commits included in the request and a nice diffstat that shows which files will be touched and…
request-pull as part of the
process of sending work upstream. Normally, the result includes a list of
commits included in the request and a nice
diffstat that shows which files will be touched and how much of each will
be changed; examples
abound on the kernel mailing lists. Occasionally, though, a repository with a relatively
complicated development history will yield a massive diffstat containing a
great deal of unrelated work. The result looks ugly and obscures what the
pull request is actually doing. This document describes what is happening
and how to fix things up; it is derived from The Wisdom of Linus Torvalds,
which has been posted numerous times over the years (example 1,
example 2).
1. Sofort-Triage & Abwehrmaßnahmen
SOC Incident Playbook: Vulnerability Remediation & Verification
title: Detect Exploitation - [$] Handling messy pull-request diffstats
id: 7b0ac1f5-390b-4c18-b91f-15560584c508
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
- https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-27
logsource:
category: network_connection
product: any
detection:
selection:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'exploit'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
- attack.initial_accessrule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
meta:
author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
date = "2026-09-27"
description = "YARA Signature for "
strings:
$str = "[$] Handling messy pull-reques" ascii wide
condition:
any of them
}index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("Handling messy pull-request diffstats")
| stats count earliest(_time) as first_seen latest(_time) as last_seen by src_ip, dest_ip, dest_host, signature
| eval first_seen=strftime(first_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), last_seen=strftime(last_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| sort - countmessage: "*Handling messy pull-request diffstats*"CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "Handling messy pull-request diffstats"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
| sort by EventCount desc2. Cyber Threat Intelligence & Forensik
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Netzwerk/Remote-Zugriff ohne Vorauthentifizierung möglich.
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