The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013)

Re:The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013) by bugeats on Monday August 10, 2020 @11:46AM (#24110523)

ITT: everyone pretending they've never burned hours troubleshooting only to find a stupid `=` instead of a `==`.

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Re:The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013) by ViViDboarder on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:10PM (#24110783)

Yea. Who hasn’t slipped up and forgotten an equals sign... and then accidentally exploited the Linux CVS and pushed their code without approval...

We’ve all been there! /s

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Re:The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013) by vlovich123 on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:57PM (#24111386)

It has been a long time since I make sure my codebases have `-Wall -Werror`. This bug is from 2003 both when that wasn't as common & when compiler diagnostics weren't as good/reliable.

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Re:The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013) by not2b on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:26PM (#24112405)

This code would not trigger under -Wall -Werror. Try it.

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Re:The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013) by vlovich123 on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:46PM (#24114993)

I was referring to what the parent wrote:

> ITT: everyone pretending they've never burned hours troubleshooting only to find a stupid `=` instead of a `==`.

In the general case that OP was talking about, not for underhanded code, my comment holds.

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