"Trojan Source" and Fedora

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The latest dramatically-named fancy-website infosec thing is called "Trojan
Source". See https://www.trojansource.codes/ if you want to marvel at the
presentation, complete with ominous hacker hex codes and rolling fog over
dark water.

It's not really a vulnerability in the traditional sense, but the idea that
unicode bidirectional characters can be used to hide code in patches. That
code is invisible to humans when viewed with most software that is just
trying to do its job in formatting unicode correctly, but the code can be
formatted in a way that makes various compilers and interpreters actually do
something meaningful with it.

Many tools and compilers are getting updates to check for this. See for
example this for the Rust compiler: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/11/01/cve-2021-42574.html

For Fedora:

Pierre-Yves Chibon has scanned dist-git and we've not found any such
suspicious characters in patches or spec files, so we're confident that this
hasn't been used to attack Fedora Linux packages to date. For the future,
there's a new mitigation in pagure which will be deployed soon:
https://pagure.io/pagure/c/8bacd4da4fa6de578b818aa7a4b36bbeaaa243d7?branch=master

This will give a warning if a PR contains bidirectional characters. (These
characters _can_ be used for their intended purpose, after all, so we're not
just blocking them.)

Plus, David Cantrell has rpminspect checks and Nick Clifton is expanding
annobin to check ELF objects.

And Huzaifa Sidhpurwala helped immensely in coordinating our response.

Thanks everyone for doing this, keeping Fedora safe and trustworthy!



-- 
Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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