[ale] CRITICAL LINUX FLAW OPENS THE DOOR TO FULL ROOT ACCESS (RHE)

[Jim Kinney]

please drop this. It's becoming annoying.
On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 18:27 -0400, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2018 21:28:46 +0000"Lightner, Jeffrey" <JLightner at dsse
> rvices.com> wrote:
> From the original article:"Red Hat has patched a vulnerability
> affecting the DHCP clientpackages that shipped with Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux 6 and 7."
> RHEL6 does NOT have systemd though RHEL7 does.    I think
> his"sticking to the facts" line was because you seemed to want to
> lay                                               ^^^^^^I guess it's
> in the eye of the beholder.
> this at the feet of systemd 
> My original post said:
> =====================================================================
> ==So I let others say it. And isn't it interesting that the botched
> shellscript and systemd are from the same folks, and they're the
> folks who have no problem at all with bringing complexity to
> GNU/Linux (soon to be
> systemd/Linux).======================================================
> =================
> I laid the blame on Redhat, not on one of their software projects.
> AndI mentioned they're the same folks who gave us systemd. And in a
> laterpost I mentioned that perhaps if they weren't spending a fortune
> on adev team for systemd, they might have found this bug earlier.
> everything from dog mange to Obamacare.   Not liking systemd is
> yourright as is expressing that OPINION.   Blaming things on systemd
> thathave nothing to do with it just loses one credibility.
> I didn't blame systemd. I blamed Redhat, and brought up one of
> theirpast bad acts.
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