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Vulnerability Discovered In Latest Ubuntu Distributions, Users Advised To Update (ubuntu.com)
Celarent Darii writes: There is a vulnerability in the latest ubuntu distributions due to the DNS resolver included in systemd. The inclusion of the dns resolver was lamented by many on the mailing list, not without cause. All are advised to update their distribution.
PulseAudio is a flaky disaster as is the developer behind it. But systemd is scaled up full retard. Who, in their right mind, thinks, "Gee, I should plop my own homegrown DNS resolver into my system service startup tool. Nothing could go wrong with that." Let's forget that BIND went through many painful years of vulnerability management.
That graph is the infant graph of every project
Sure... except that systemd has been around for seven years. It's not maturing because it's always expanding.
They need help.
I agree, they are rudderless boat that runs into other projects and absorbs them. What they need is vision but the project leaders are blind mice in a maze with no finish line. I cannot help them because they will not accept one of their ideas being rejected.
What are YOU doing to help them? There's 617 things you could be working on.
I've been writing a properly designed replacement to dislodge systemd. It's portable, superior but most importantly it follows the UNIX design philosophy. However, I will not be an enabler of those who work on systemd by cleaning up their messes for the next 30 years.
Open source software is evolutionary and systemd too will go the way of the dinosaurs.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
The news is clear, Shill.
The news here is that systemd, in its usual 'we know better than anyone, even though we have very very little experience' way replaced perfectly functional systems for the most dubious of reasons (usually 'because we want to make them different, and cannot even be bothered raising our reasons with maintainers of existing solutions because then we may need to rationalise what we want'), and went away and implemented a system broken in a way SO foolish that the existing solutions have addressed exactly these issues decades ago.
Not to mention the fact that they have worked hard to try and make it unavoidable that ALL linux solutions will end up with the problems caused by their basic ignorance by making systemd basically indespensible.
Clear enough? Or perhaps you think a trivially exploitable and almost indefensible DNS bug, along with a file system wiping bug (the good old rm ../...) are just minor bumps on the road to nirvana?
Of course the clear and obvious REASON for systemd is a power grab by RedHat to give them control of the Linux 'standard'. It is unfortunate that they cannot see past their own grab at power to see how damaging such an approach is to the robustness of Linux itself -they must turn away, stick their fingers in their ears, and sing 'la la la la, wont happen to us, la la la la' loudly to themselves each time a big windows exploit drops these days.. Because that is the endpoint of the path they are following.