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systemd? More like systemK! But seriously, are non-systemd systems not vulnerable to the FUSE portion of this? (CVE-2021-33910)

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FWIW, I feel like your comment is responding to an implicit critique of systemd, but even if one was warranted I didn't read that comment as implying such (as the premise would just be that systemd is a key place in the stack where you would need to be super careful, not that it is somehow less careful than other projects... even if I might claim as such for at least logging ;P); it could be that I am misinterpreting your comment, though?

Yeah, I think you and a lot of other people misinterpreted my comment, since it was oddly one of my most-downvoted-ever.

My "systemK" joke was indeed implying what you said, that systemd is "a key place in the stack where you would need to be super careful." (Almost Kernel-like.)

And my question was legitimate, although poorly-researched. Answering myself: CVE-2021-33910 only affects systemd, not all FUSE in general.

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