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Comment by mmoll

2 days ago

The musl vulnerability looks a lot like an intentional backdoor, doesn’t it?

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Cakez0r  2 days ago

Choosing * instead of NULL is indeed very fishy coincidence. Of all the return values they could've picked... What are the odds?

  • Arch485  1 day ago

    About 1 in 256 I'd reckon

  • procaryote  2 days ago

    Also the coincidence of 3 weeks later adding "oh, no passwords above 256 chars" making it easy to trigger

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