Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise

Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by Repulsion9513 on Friday March 29, 2024 @10:44PM (#39871378)

A shell script with a few defined arguments is not a complexly interconnected set of components. It's literally the simplest, most core, least-strongly-dependent interconnection that exists in a nix system.

Tell us you never bothered to understand how init worked before drawing a conclusion on it without telling us.

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by dralley on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:46PM (#39877511)

Have you ever seen the init scripts of a reasonably-complex service that required other services to be online?

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by Repulsion9513 on Saturday March 30, 2024 @08:28PM (#39880109)

Yep.

    depend(){
        need net localmount
        after bootmisc
    }

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