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Reply to post: Hmm.

The D in Systemd stands for 'Dammmmit!' A nasty DHCPv6 packet can pwn a vulnerable Linux box

Monday 29th October 2018 18:06 GMT W.O.Frobozz

Hmm.

/sbin/init never had these problems. But then again /sbin/init didn't pretend to be the entire operating system.

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