On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:37:51 +0200, Hisham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There has been a proof of concept where a group of people has injected >> bad packages into a distribution by asking to be a mirror and providing >> erroneous updates (1). >> The issue is not that they provided spoofed, hacked or broken packages, >> which would fail with bad signature (or the user had to add the key to >> their keyring), but they used old packages which they updated version >> information for. An example for GoboLinux would be to repack an old >> version, Foo--1.2--i686.tar.bz2 as Foo--2.3--i686.tar.bz2 and our tools >> would be fooled to thing that the latter was an update/later version >> (you would also change the name of the version directory in the tarball). >> This meant that users that used that "mirror" would get "updates" that >> wasn't always up to date and even might have security issues. >> We need to add version information to our packages, any idea on a good >> scheme for that? > > Yes, we just need to add the full path to the FileHash file entries. > If they are tampered with, FileHash.sig will alert. Fix committed to > svn. I don't think we should use *full* paths, only <program name>/<version>. People might not have $goboPrograms at /Programs. -- /Jonas Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
