XZ backdoor in a nutshell

Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Linux@lemmy.ml – 1208 points –
162

You are viewing a single comment

Very generous to imagine that maintainers have so much time on their hands

Bug fixes can be delayed for a security sweep. One of the quicker ways that come to mind is checking the hash between built from source and the tarball

The whole point here is that the build process was infiltrated - so you'd have to remake the build system yourself to compare, and that's not a task that can be automated