From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
Netfilter Development <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH libnetfilter_log] autoconf: don't curl build script
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:34:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250310083446.GA8451@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z85FG/1qImu3tiSS@slk15.local.net>
Duncan Roe <duncan_roe@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> | This is a bad idea; cloning repo followed by "./autogen.sh" brings
> | repository into a changed state.
>
> Agree with the above, except IMHO the "bad idea" is to have a frozen version of
> build_man.sh in the repository at all.
I absolutely hate the idea of fetching stuff at build time.
And in this case, we fetch an exectuable shell script from
untrusted location.
It has backdoor written all over it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-10 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-09 10:55 [PATCH libnetfilter_log] autoconf: don't curl build script Florian Westphal
2025-03-10 1:49 ` Duncan Roe
2025-03-10 8:34 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2025-03-10 10:13 ` Duncan Roe
2025-03-10 20:19 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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