atzanteol comments on Serious Linux vulnerability affecting nearly every system. Patch your systems.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

With software projects training people that curl | bash is totally fine and the insane amount of supply chain attacks lately it’s a critical bug that’s just begging to be exploited on single user systems.

I wish the worst case of gout on people who do this. I can't believe it's become such an accepted way of installing software.

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[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I have a vague memory of some project that did this ages ago where you could see the script on their web page but when you ran the command it executed a different script (there was a single-character difference in the URL) and the result was it told you not to be so dumb as to run scripts like that.

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[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

It was idontplaydarts.com (search it up on Internet Archive). It could detect if you were downloading it directly, or piping it to bash, abd change the script it was delivering accordingly.

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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 point 2 months ago

It is still the recommended way to install Rust.... M)

But what is bonkers is that pip install can run arbitrary code. The python packaging system is likely to be the next target of such attackers.

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