alt Hacker NewsRedhat actually stumbled on the bug separately with valgrind errors triggering, so it's days were likely numbered regardless. Probably saved them a lot of debugging but the writing was on the wall.
Replies
tokyobreakfast • today at 5:50 PM
A lot of people fail to fully grasp how bad this could have been on the off chance the authors were slightly less sloppy.
➕ show 1 reply
Red Hat noticed that something was off, but there was a new version published by "Jia Tan" that fixed the warnings and the performance issue, so it's not really clear that the original version would have still gotten as deep of an investigation as would have been needed to find the issue.
It's possible though. The noise around it did at least put Freund on alert and we should be very glad both that "Jia Tan" made the mistakes they made originally and that Freund followed up on their gut feeling