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| PhenixRising Guru  Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 857 |
Discovered? |
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stanleyella Guru Joined: 25/06/2022 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2127 |
this site hacked?! paranormal |
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| Bleep Guru Joined: 09/01/2022 Location: United KingdomPosts: 509 |
For the uninitiated, a major compromise has been discovered in liblzma, where an apparent backdoor has been inserted that breaks ssh-rsa authentication in sshd. The backdoor is intentionally convoluted, but the upshot is that if SSHD loads liblzma as a dynamic library, its own RSA authentication functions get patched for Bad Ones. This is a "software supply chain" attack that was very close to going undiscovered, and making it into major operating system components. The cleanup is ongoing - this is one of the areas in which the OSS claim "many eyes make bugs (exploits) shallow" gets wound up to 11 and given nitrous injection. Unless you use bleeding edge Linux, probably compiling your own, there doesn't seem to be anything to worry about. Further reading (from links not on random pseudosocial media threads): The original report. A breakdown. Time line. More details. Edited 2024-04-10 05:18 by Bleep |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3801 |
Fortunately found in good time. Of course, there's always the more tricky kind of thing in Ken Thompson's Turing Award lecture "Reflections on Trusting Trust" John |
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SimpleSafeName Guru Joined: 28/07/2019 Location: United StatesPosts: 319 |
Excellent synopsis, basically the Linux community dodged a bullet before any real harm was done. I agree that no "normal" user is going going to pull from the nightlies in general, and particularly for this library. Had it gotten into the mainstream build that would have been a different story. The detection of it reminds me of Cliff Stoll looking for a $0.75 discrepancy in the "billing" of the time share accounts on the mainframe. Told in the book "The Cuckoo's Egg". |
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Gizmo Admin Group  Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5078 |
Put enough patience and brains into any online system, and a vulnerability will be found. I'll be more concerned about the apple bug, its in the CPU's and cant easily be fixed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D1gf3omRnw The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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