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Remove the backdoor found in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 (CVE-2024-3094).

While the backdoor was inactive (and thus harmless) without inserting
a small trigger code into the build system when the source package was
created, it's good to remove this anyway:

  - The executable payloads were embedded as binary blobs in
    the test files. This was a blatant violation of the
    Debian Free Software Guidelines.

  - On machines that see lots bots poking at the SSH port, the backdoor
    noticeably increased CPU load, resulting in degraded user experience
    and thus overwhelmingly negative user feedback.

  - The maintainer who added the backdoor has disappeared.

  - Backdoors are bad for security.

This reverts the following without making any other changes:

The sentence "This was a blatant violation of the Debian Free Software Guidelines" is highlighted.

Below the github screenshot is a frame of the 1998 film The Big Lebowski with the meme caption "What, are you a fucking park ranger now?" from the scene where that line was spoken.

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[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Well, I think they should revoke that guy's PGP key

[-] computergeek125@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Isn't the point of PGP/GPG that there's no central database?

[-] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, he will always be able to prove that's it's him. But if they revoke the permissions of that key he can't do any more damage

this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2024
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