Re: Three steps we could take to make supply chain attacks a bit harder

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On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 08:22:06PM +0900, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> > the initial injection (original:
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=m4/build-to-host.m4;h=f928e9ab403b3633e3d1d974abcf478e65d4b0aa;hb=HEAD).
> 
> (Honestly I did compare the backdoored script and the real one this
> morning and I would be hard pressed to say if either is backdoored just
> looking at either version... Admitedly it was 3AM when I looked at it,
> but I don't think it's just a late hour problem)

Right!  Definitely not a 3am problem :-/

> > (3) We should have a "security path", like "critical path".
...
> Before making each of these safer we should make sshd not link with so
> many things in the first place.
> On oss-security, Solar Designer made a lot of good points about it
> (around here: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/27
> , but the full thread is interesting)

Agreed.

Rich.

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