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Author: golinux
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed
On 2021-07-20 15:52, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 10:08:48PM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
>> Just in case sombody missed it:
>>
>> https://www.zdnet.com/article/nasty-linux-systemd-security-bug-revealed/
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>>
>> "Systemd, the Linux system and service manager that has largely
>> replaced init as the master Linux startup and control program, has
>> always had its critics. Now, with Qualys's discovery of a new systemd
>> security bug, systemd will have fewer friends. Successful exploitation
>> of this newest vulnerability enables any unprivileged user to cause a
>> denial of service via a kernel panic.
>
>> In a phrase, "that's bad, that's really bad."
>
> It seems that this is the tip of what will be be a very large iceberg.
>


And Debian knows it. They are starting to circle the wagons . . .

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>> Nik
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