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by account42 805 days ago
Those other libraries dependend on by sshd are hopefully more closely monitored. The upstream sshd developers probably did not even consider that liblzma could end up being loaded in the process.

Make excuses for systemd all you want but loading multiple additional libraries into crytical system deamons just to write a few bytes into a socket is inexcusable and directly enabled this attack vector.