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How does one restrict network access for a library?

• galangalalgol 4y ago
  That was my thinking. In Austral that is a thing, but in c++ not so much. And if you are building the dependency from source, which is pretty common, the common build systems are all Turing complete themselves so they can take over your pipeline and do bad things.
• lanstin 4y ago
  Run your CI in an allow listed only network and only allow access to either your private, security scanned, mirror or else keep well trusted things. Even if a bitcoin miner gets into the stack it can’t send the results to the source so it is less dangerous.
  • galangalalgol 4y ago
    But it can insert itself in your pipeline so that anyone who depends on you is also infected. We have already seen CI worms for thevlack of a better term. One was briefly spreading in crates.io early last year as part of the "crate depression" thing.