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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise (www.openwall.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Either that or the attacker was very good at choosing their puppet…

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well the account is focused on one particular project which makes sense if you expect to get burned at some point and don't want all your other exploits to be detected. It looks like there was a second sock puppet account involved in the original attack vector support code.

We should certainly audit other projects for similar changes from other psudoanonymous accounts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and the 700 commits should be reverted… just in case we missed something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That is a should be standard procedure