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!"
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday July 31 2017, @08:39AM (2 children)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday July 31 2017, @10:18AM (1 child)
A couple of other people made the same comment. I would put security issues as a corner case, because they pertain to web servers - which is not the majority of users (well, pre-IOT at least).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by TheRaven on Monday July 31 2017, @01:49PM
sudo mod me up