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Doesn't matter. This is a supply chain attack, not a vulnerability arising from a bug. All sandboxing the certificate parsing code would have done is make the a
by quotemstr 3y ago
Doesn't matter. This is a supply chain attack, not a vulnerability arising from a bug. All sandboxing the certificate parsing code would have done is make the author of the backdoor do a little bit more work to hijack the necessarily un-sandboxed supervisor process.
Applying the usual exploit mitigations to supply chain attacks won't do much good.
What will? Kill distribution tarballs. Make every binary bit for bit reproducible from a known git hash. Minimize dependencies. Run whole programs with minimal privileges.
Oh, and finally support SHA2 in git to forever forestall some kind of preimage attack against a git commit hash.
- nurple 3y agoOh boy, do I have the packaging system for you!
- LtWorf 3y agoMalware can be in commits as well…
- int_19h 3y ago... and stop adding random patches to upstream software, especially when we're talking about security-critical stuff that must absolutely not be released without a very thorough security review.