From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Reza Housseini <reza.housseini@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: xz backdoor
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 19:27:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZgtCzmz4Y_99qyNv@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ae39210-ba8b-49df-0ea1-c520011b7cf3@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 09:46:12PM +0200, Reza Housseini wrote:
> Just stumbled upon this recently discovered supply chain attack on xz,
> inserting a backdoor via test files [1, 2]. And it made me wondering, what
> would have been the effects on guix and how can we potentially avoid it?
There's actually suspicious code by the xz attacker in one of our
packages right now:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/70113
Please help review that patch!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-01 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-01 19:46 xz backdoor Reza Housseini
2024-04-01 20:39 ` Kaelyn
2024-04-01 20:52 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-04-01 20:44 ` jbranso
2024-04-01 23:27 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2024-04-02 8:23 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-04-02 8:29 ` adanskana
2024-04-02 22:35 ` Ryan Prior
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