GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 | Hacker News
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Hacker News commenters said CVE-2024-3094 was not mainly caused by GNU IFUNC or systemd.
They argued the core problem was attacker-inserted code in the xz/libxz shared library.
That malicious library could influence root-run programs and downstream packages, widening the blast radius.
The debate reframes the incident as a software supply-chain compromise affecting Linux systems.



