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A comment on Alpine Linux Security advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass. Parent comment

Re:Alpine Linux Security advisory: OpenSSH-server password a... by worksonmine on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:02AM (#50380822)
Apparently because some devs didn't check for NULL which resulted in crashes. Weird choice to fix other peoples' bad programming by deviating from the spec.
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Re:Alpine Linux Security advisory: OpenSSH-server password a... by cyphar on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:33AM (#50381179)
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Re:Alpine Linux Security advisory: OpenSSH-server password a... by mik1998 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:26PM (#50381802)
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Re:Alpine Linux Security advisory: OpenSSH-server password a... by sysguest on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:42PM (#50383474)
hmm why not make some fake-users just for this stuff?
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Re:Alpine Linux Security advisory: OpenSSH-server password a... by forthac on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:46PM (#50387122)
you mean like daemon?
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Re:Alpine Linux Security advisory: OpenSSH-server password a... by cyphar on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:47PM (#50387524)
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