Re: xz backdoor

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On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 07:44:12PM +0100, Mikel Olasagasti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm seeing weird things.
> 
> For whatever reason Source for xz was changed 2 months ago[1] to use
> GH releases instead of tukaani.org site.
> 
> The XZ page[2] has a note stating:
> 
> "Note: GitHub automatically includes two archives Source code (zip)
> and Source code (tar.gz) in the releases. These archives cannot be
> disabled and should be ignored."
> 
> And they wayback WayBackMachine[3] doesn't have previous versions.
> 
> Do we know if GH release tarballs are safe?
> @richard, do you remember why you had to change the source for the tarball?

Sadly the release tarballs we used *do* contain the vulnerability.
I checked myself that the payload is present in the final xz RPMs.

Rich.

> Regards,
> Mikel
> 
> [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xz/c/0c09a6280b4a0c4fd7a9fc742c09469c95ff431f?branch=f40
> [2] https://xz.tukaani.org/
> [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20240119212251/https://xz.tukaani.org/
> 
> Hau idatzi du Kevin Kofler via devel (devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> erabiltzaileak (2024 mar. 29(a), or. (19:01)):
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > wow: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/
> >
> > I think at this point we clearly cannot trust xz upstream anymore and should
> > probably fork the project.
> >
> >         Kevin Kofler
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