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XZ backdoor in a nutshell (lemmy.zip)

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

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

I think we need focus on zero trust when it comes to upstream software

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

exactly, stop depending on esoteric libraries

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

It is fine to use them just know how they work and check the commit log.

That of course requires you to pull from got instead of a tarball

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

this was well hidden. not sure anyone would have spotted this by checking commit log

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

It was hidden in the Tarball

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

i'm not an expert, but my reading was that it was hidden in a binary used for testing EDIT: oh yeah, i see what you mean