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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by drazk on Friday March 29, 2024 @07:58PM (#39870368)
After reading the original post by Andres Freund, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4, his analysis indicates that the RSA_public_decrypt function is being redirected to the malware code. Since RSA_public_decrypt is only used in the context of RSA public key - private key authentication, can we can reasonably conclude that the backdoor does not affect username-password authentication?
Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by cbolton on Saturday March 30, 2024 @07:57AM (#39874007)
Isn't it rather that the attacker can log in to the compromised server by exploiting the RSA code path?