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Kevin Beaumont

Interesting find by @fuomag9 - the XZ repo person tried getting Ubuntu to update yesterday by filing a bug report bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205941

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Kevin Beaumont

The Twilight zone time - a bug from 2015 comes back around in XZ incident, it appears github.com/google/sanitizers/i

uoxc

@GossiTheDog wait, are we at "implementing features to get plausible deniability for evading vuln scanning?"

Because if so this feels quite novel. At the very least I can't remember a comparable supply chain attack of this sophistication from the top of my head

Tony Hoyle

@uoxc @GossiTheDog Doesn't need to be that sophisticated..

Either (a) developer continues submitting other work whilst compromising at least one project. or (b) the account is in use by two people - the real developer and a hacker.

So the question becomes compromised account or compromised developer.

In the first case it's not that unbelievable that someone who was up to no good would try to cover their tracks by doing other unrelated things.

Bill

@GossiTheDog @fuomag9 @gabrlelle says "THIS IS WHY I HAVE TRUST ISSUES."

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@GossiTheDog @fuomag9 Interesting that Debian and other distros already knew about the issue (on embargo) and were already reverting, but Ubuntu didn’t seem to know about it yet from these comments

Also, reading these comments apparently 5.6.0 was already on ubuntu?

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