• TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The slowness is on purpose? To help identify the sshd in question to the attacker which nodes are compromised? What reason(s) could there be?

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        7 months ago

        He’s talking about Debian’s slowness in getting new versions to stable, and how the meme ignores security backports.

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          7 months ago

          Ohh that makes way more sense, thanks. I haven’t used Debian in like 10 years but it was obviously the same back then too.

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        If the above decides to continue, the code appears to be parsing the symbol tables in memory. This is the quite slow step that made me look into the issue.

        That is from the original find. Not sure the relevance of it and this being proof for it being “on purpose”. But that is the origin of the slowness.