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Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response

posted by martyb on Monday July 31 2017, @05:01AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @02:09PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @02:09PM (#547147)

    If Poettering would have just been a competent leader and made competent desiccations no drama would be there to exploit. Unfortunately he has a really shitty attitude and therefore deserves the award he got.
    If Systemd would have listened to all the blowback people gave it from the beginning and would have constructively taken it into account to improve their code none of this drama and shit flying everywhere would have happened.
    Whenever a group of coders do not take a constructive attitude about their code baby ,and what it might not handle perfectly, combined with a spokesperson/head administrator who makes really bad calls when it comes to how to administer bugs you will run into situations were these kind of awards are warranted and deserved.

  • (Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Monday July 31 2017, @03:04PM (1 child)

    by pvanhoof (4638) on Monday July 31 2017, @03:04PM (#547172) Homepage

    Not saying anything about the award. I'm sure Poettering gets the joke. I am referring to the drama people say about Poettering and systemd here. I've actually seen calls to assassinate him. Also on this site.

    That's absurd.

    (And, may I say, illegal in some countries. As this call for assassination is hatespeech and calling for violence. And no it's not funny or "just a joke")