Shaking hands with St. Peter, slipping him a crisp $20: I think everything's all set here, don't you Pete? C'mon, open up those big beautiful pearly gates.
rotopenguin
joined 2 years ago
My $0.05 reading of it is that they want to hose down the build servers* and start clean, in case if the attacker escaped the sandboxing there.
* (the computers that compile all of the new packages from source, not web servers that are handing out finished deb binaries to the public.)
I stand corrected. All programs should have access to anything, anywhere, and be linked to liblzma just in case if some arbitrary file is compressed. Thank you for setting me straight.
Any app that can be sandboxed, should. Especially apps that are parsing random data from the internet.
It can then go from a snap to a superior flatpak real quick.
That sounds a lot nicer than the jav ascript garbage colle ction nightmar e that is gnome-m utter / gjs
The xz attack was not a clown show. It's a well orchestrated attack, with a lot of clever techniques to slip a payload into something that is supposed to be fully open and readable source code. Somebody recognized a difference between what people think ssh&systemd's dependency graph looks like, and what it actually was. Fuckery went into disabling some technical defenses (a single dot was snuck into an autoconf file! Try to find it.) and SE went into disabling others. The best malware reversers in the world have been shooting caffeine into their eyeballs for 2 days, trying to make sense of latter-stage payloads.
This attack was damn good. They either got unlucky, or there is a small possibility that our spies out-spied them and dropped the dime. Another angle is that they were running out of time - systemd developers were getting nervous about their own surface area and were working to cut that back. The attacker took the chance on running their play before it was fully bulletproofed, because it was in greater danger of becoming an obsolete exploit.
"Oh, did I need to rebuild the initrd too? Shhheeeeit, can I do that in a chroot from a livedisk or something?"
apt info xz-utils
Your version is old as balls. Even if you were on Mantic, it would still be old as balls.
The more EA breaks their own shitty games, the more powerful Linux becomes