As the person who wrote the fix for this issue (and not the original code), I will just mention that I find this paragraph makes the author sound incredibly entitled:
Shamefully, the inetutils project hasn’t actually released a fixed version of their software (at least at the time of publishing).
The bug was reported on a public mailing list, which is sadly common nowadays [1]. After my workday, during which I was not able to review the report, I wrote a script to confirm the bug was real, since I was seeing way too many slop reports at the time. Then I sent a patch before going to bed [2]. A third party then graciously shared the patch on oss-security [3], which all distributions follow. There is no need to make a new release, which is harder for the distributions than simply applying a small patch.
Perhaps I am just unlucky in my interactions, but I feel like this entitlement is too common among software security people. Note that I see zero return in spending time working on Inetutils, and I find other projects I work on more interesting.
you are right they are entitled brats. usually they cant write good code themselves and they purposefully look for very old or low traffic code to find things that are 'old' etc. to make stupid uninteresting AI generated blog posts.
i have not seen a decent writeup in one of these clickbait things these ppl push out.
just ignore these types of ppl. its fine to fix the bugs ofc but what i mean is, ignore their attitudes. its a kids' attitude to life they keep
collinfunk · · focus · HN ↗
Perhaps I am just unlucky in my interactions, but I feel like this entitlement is too common among software security people. Note that I see zero return in spending time working on Inetutils, and I find other projects I work on more interesting.
[1] <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-03/msg00031.html" rel="nofollow">https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-03/msg... [2] <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-03/msg00032.html" rel="nofollow">https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-03/msg... [3] <a href="https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/12/4" rel="nofollow">https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/12/4
saidnooneever · · focus · HN ↗
i have not seen a decent writeup in one of these clickbait things these ppl push out.
just ignore these types of ppl. its fine to fix the bugs ofc but what i mean is, ignore their attitudes. its a kids' attitude to life they keep