• Laser@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Since this affects Linux and others, I’m guessing this is about OpenSSH. But I’m not very certain. Just can’t think of another candidate.

    But holy sh, if your software has been running on everything for the last 20 years

    This doesn’t sound like glibc as someone in the thread guessed.

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      3 months ago

      Could be quite a few different things.

      Could be the kernel itself, gnupg, openSSH or even bash.

      But we won’t know for sure, until it’s publically disclosed.

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        3 months ago

        Could be the kernel itself

        Wouldn’t make sense to me because the thread says GNU/Linux and others, though this could relate to Android or distros not using any GNU.

        gnupg

        Usually not exposed to the network though, but it’s generally a mess so wouldn’t be too surprising

        Another candidate I have in mind is ntpd, but again that is usually not easily accessible from outside and not used everywhere, as stuff like systemd-timesyncd exists.

        Just want to stress that I’m not sure about it being OpenSSH, it was more supposed to be a fun guess than a certain prediction