points by dabinat 2 days ago | 0 comments
This is why I don’t fully buy the argument that software that’s been around for a long time is more secure and reliable because it’s been battle-tested. There’s been a lot of time for cruft to accumulate until no-one can ever fix it because everyone is expecting it to function in the broken manner it’s always functioned. And some of the more obscure configuration options get a lot less scrutiny.
[–] aidenn0 2 days ago
This is not an obscure configuration option. Your password file almost certainly has at least one account with "*" as the password hash.
Integration of different software is the stage most likely to introduce uncaught bugs. That is what happened here: musl intentionally broke the documented API of a function used by OpenSSH. Then Alpine integrated this incorrect implementation with OpenSSH.
[–] procaryote 2 days ago