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The D in Systemd stands for 'Dammmmit!' A nasty DHCPv6 packet can root a vulnerable Linux box
2018-10-26 20:52

Hole opens up remote-code execution and admin access – or a crash, if you're lucky A security bug in Systemd can be exploited over the network to, at best, potentially crash a vulnerable Linux machine, or, at worst, execute malicious code as root on the box.…


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