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[–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Backdoor only gets inserted when building RPM or DEB. So while updating frequently is a good idea, it won't change anything for Arch users today.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    No, read the link you posted:

    Arch does not directly link openssh to liblzma, and thus this attack vector is not possible. You can confirm this by issuing the following command:

    ldd "$(command -v sshd)"
    

    However, out of an abundance of caution, we advise users to remove the malicious code from their system by upgrading either way.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    when building RPM or DEB.

    Which ones? Everything I run seems to be clear.

    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3094

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    | Enterprise Linux 6 | xz | Not affected | | Enterprise Linux 7 | xz | Not affected | | Enterprise Linux 8 | xz | Not affected | | Enterprise Linux 9 | xz | Not affected |

    (and thus all the bug-for-bug clones)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I think it needs to be

    • rolling release (because it was caught so quickly that it hasn't made its way into any cadence based distro yet)
    • using the upstream Makefile task to build a RPM or DEB (because the compromised build script directly checks for that and therefore doesn't trigger for a destdir build like Gentoo’s or Arch’s)
    • using the upstream provided tarball as opposed to the one GitHub provides, or a git clone (because only that contains the compromised Makefile, running autotools yourself is safe)

    Points 1 and 2 mean that only rolling release RPM and DEB distros like Debian Sid and Fedora are candidates. I didn't check if they use the Makefile and the compromised tarballs.

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