From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: buildroot@busybox.net, James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>,
Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>,
Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/4] package/xz: bump version to 5.6.0
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:26:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240331092600.0eca553b@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZgccX_OQrsUXyfIO@landeda>
Hello,
On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 20:54:07 +0100
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> On 2024-03-29 11:21 -0600, James Hilliard spake thusly:
> [--SNIP--]
> > -XZ_VERSION = 5.4.6
> > +XZ_VERSION = 5.6.0
> > Is this version backdoored?
> > [17]https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
>
> Wahoo. Just, wahoo... thanks for pointing this out, I've marked the
> series rejected.
>
> I've been reading on this story, and it is just, well, I don't have
> words. I'm stomached.
The story is indeed crazy. For once, the fact that we are somewhat slow
at merging patches ensured this didn't get applied before the backdoor
was discovered :-)
Thomas
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-07 16:52 [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/4] package/xz: bump version to 5.6.0 Peter Seiderer via buildroot
2024-03-07 16:52 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 2/4] package/xz: determine all autoconf options Peter Seiderer via buildroot
2024-03-07 16:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 3/4] package/xz: enable year2038 option Peter Seiderer via buildroot
2024-03-07 16:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 4/4] package/xz: convert to cmake build Peter Seiderer via buildroot
2024-03-29 17:21 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/4] package/xz: bump version to 5.6.0 James Hilliard
2024-03-29 19:54 ` Yann E. MORIN
2024-03-31 7:26 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
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