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Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response

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

canopic jug writes:

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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• Re:Oh FFS Re:Oh FFS (Score: 2) by gawdonblue on Monday July 31 2017, @12:45PM (2 children)

  by gawdonblue (412) on Monday July 31 2017, @12:45PM (#547116)

  Here's a photo of Poettering's award [nocookie.net].

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• Re:Oh FFS (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday August 01 2017, @02:23PM

  by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday August 01 2017, @02:23PM (#547653) Journal

  FAAAATHER!!!!

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• Re:Oh FFS (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @08:49PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @08:49PM (#547752)

  OH, in that case, suitable for insertion. But I still say he should be framed.

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