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posted by martyb on Monday July 31 2017, @05:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the imminent-recursion dept.

The 2017 Pwnie winner for lamest vendor response goes to Lennart Poettering for systemd. According to CSO which has reported on it, the Pwnie winners which were announced a few days ago, the summary for Lennart and systemd reads as follows:

The most spectacular mishandling of a security vulnerability by a vendor ended up winning a Pwnie for Lennart Poettering due to SystemD bugs 5998, 6225, 6214, 5144, 6237. The nomination reads: "Where you are dereferencing null pointers, or writing out of bounds, or not supporting fully qualified domain names, or giving root privileges to any user whose name begins with a number, there's no chance that the CVE number will referenced in either the change log or the commit message. But CVEs aren't really our currency any more, and only the lamest of vendors gets a Pwnie!"


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  • (Score: 2) by tonyPick on Monday July 31 2017, @08:29AM

    by tonyPick (1237) on Monday July 31 2017, @08:29AM (#547034) Homepage Journal

    +1 to this - Yes, using grep/sed/whatever from command line has a learning curve. I went through it in the mid 90's, and it's gained a couple of flags, but it's still all pretty much the same when it comes to getting useful work done.

    Meanwhile you have to relearn the interface for shiny GUI toy of the month, which will be thrown away every six months, and is still less functional.

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