Katherine Mcmillan writes:
I have seen the following comment, or similar, in several
articles now:
"On Friday, a lone Microsoft developer rocked the world when he
revealed a
Katherine Mcmillan:
> Just for clarity, does anyone know what "Unix-like operating systems"
> would be affected by this?
None. TLDR: The build process of the backdoor explicitly aborts
on platforms other than Linux x86-64.
As the maintainer of the archivers/xz port, I took a look at the
build
On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 09:17:18PM +, Katherine Mcmillan wrote:
> I have seen the following comment, or similar, in several articles now:
> "On Friday, a lone Microsoft developer rocked the world when he revealed a
>
llumos for that matter (ex. smartOS), or QNX, or Solaris. Just for
> clarity, does anyone know what "Unix-like operating systems" would be
> affected by this?
>
> Thank you,
> Katie
>
> ____
> From: owner-m...@openbsd.org on beh
On 4/4/24 23:17, Katherine Mcmillan wrote:
an open source data compression utility available on almost all installations of
Linux and other Unix-like operating systems."
There are a couple of problems with this statement, but I just want to
focus in on the "almost all installations of Linux
would be
affected by this?
Thank you,
Katie
From: owner-m...@openbsd.org on behalf of Aaron Mason
Sent: 03 April 2024 19:17
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: lcamtuf on the recent xz debacle
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 9:32 PM Peter N. M.
On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 9:32 PM Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
>
> "This dependency existed not because of a deliberate design decision
> by the developers of OpenSSH, but because of a kludge added by some
> Linux distributions to integrate the tool with the operating
> system’s newfangled
I will briefly add a few links where the issue is further debated for those who
are interested:
https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor
https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27
> 30. 3. 2024 v 11:33, Peter N. M. Hansteen :
>
> While this issue
While this issue does not in fact affect OpenBSD, I think it will still be
of interest to OpenBSD users -- a lot of us deal with Linux in our dayjobs,
after all.
This is one of the best explanations of the matter I have seen so far:
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