systemd

The systemd component that collects and stores core dumps — systemd‑coredump — was found in January 2023 to ignore the kernel’s fs.suid_dumpable setting, allowing core files for setuid/setgid (privileged) processes to be produced and, under some configurations, read by non‑privileged users. That...

The short answer is: No — Azure Linux is the only Microsoft product Microsoft has publicly attested today to include the upstream systemd-coredump component implicated by CVE‑2025‑4598, but that attestation is product‑scoped, not an exclusivity guarantee. Any Microsoft artifact that ships or...

Lennart Poettering — the developer who rewrote how modern Linux systems come up and manage services — has quietly left Microsoft and co-founded a new Berlin-based startup, Amutable, with Chris Kühl and Christian Brauner, launching an explicit mission to bring determinism and cryptographically...