No fix yet plus criticalness plus uncertainty plus talk of example exploit equals nightmare
, who says there's still no fix for the decade-old flaw he disclosed to developers three weeks ago. If it is as described, the bug could be used to hijack Linux-based systems from across the internet or network.Margaritelli promises a write-up that will include a proof-of-concept exploit and technical details about the doomsday flaw.
Ubuntu maker Canonical and IBM's Red Hat have confirmed the 9.9 CVSS severity of the issue, we're told by Margaritelli.did not immediately hear back from the two orgs about this, and we will update this story as soon as we do. While we don't have any technical details about the flaw, we do know the disclosure process did not go well, at least according to Margaritelli. His attempts to get the supposed issue fixed ran into resistance from developers, allegedly:
Like, I write software, I get it, I get how someone can be defensive about the stuff they write, I really do. But holy sh, if your software has been running on everything for the last 20 years, you have a freaking responsibility to own and fix your bugs instead of using your energies to explain to the poor bastard that reported them how wrong he is, even tho he's literally giving you PoC after PoC and systematically proving your assumptions about your own software wrong at every comment.
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