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400+ Arch Linux AUR Packages Compromised in a Supply Chain Attack Deploying Infostealers (cybersecuritynews.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Ironic, given the name.

I'm very new to Arch so I'm still confused as to where I stand. Hopefully I haven't been pwned. Sadly, my distro includes AUR packages by default.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    My distro (Garuda) included a couple back when I originally installed it, but doesn't use them currently (namely wine-nine - which was affected) but the built-in system update didn't touch AUR unless you explicitly tell it to, so that saved my bacon in this situation (my AUR packages hadn't been updated in 2 months).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    How do I check to see if that's the case for me too?

    As I showed above, I also had wine-nine, but I can't tell if that log is listing all the times wine-nine was updated or all the times I updated with wine-nine installed.

    I'm leaning toward the latter given it was just listing wine-nine 0.10-1 repeatedly, implying it never updated past that in the dangerous period, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I am not at home (and work is stuck on windows) so I can't verify with 100% certainty... But I believe what I did was pacman -Qm to list the AUR packages. Then I did pacman -Qi <package_name> to list the details about why it was installed, what dependencies it has, what depends on it, and when it was last updated. Mine showed like 2 years prior (whenever I installed the OS) because there hadn't been any update to it in years (until the attack). If your date for last updated is recently, you probably have a problem.

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