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XZ backdoor in a nutshell (lemmy.zip)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

All of this would be avoided if Debian downloaded from GitHub's distributions of the source code, albeit unsigned.

In that case they would have just put it in the repo, and I'm not convinced anyone would have caught it. They may have obfuscated it slightly more.

It's totally reasonable to trust a tarball signed by the maintainer, but there probably needs to be more scrutiny when a package changes hands like this one did.