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Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl... by kbolino on Saturday March 30, 2024 @08:38PM (#39880178)
I'm assuming SSH root login is disabled and sudo requires separate authentication to elevate, but yeah, if there's a way to elevate yourself to unconfined root trivially after logging in, this doesn't buy you anything.

Now, sandboxing sudo (in the general case) with SELinux probably isn't possible.

Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl... by CanaryLayout on Saturday March 30, 2024 @11:20PM (#39881086)
This does not matter either. The attack came in by loading into systemd via liblzma. It put on a hook and then sits around waiting for sshd to load in so it can learn the symbols then proceeds to swap in the jumps.

sshd is a sitting duck. Bifurcating sshd into a multimodule scheme won't work because some part of it still has to be loaded by systemd.

This is a web of trust issue. In the .NET world where refection attacks happen to commercial software that features dynload assemblies, the only solution they could come up with is to sign all the things, then box up anything that doesn't have a signing mechanism and then sign that, even signing plain old zip files.

Some day we will all have to have keys, and to keep the anon people from leaving they can get an anon key, but anons with keys will never get on the chain where the big distros would ever trust their commits until someone who forked over their passport and photos got a trustable key to sign off on the commits, so that the distro builders can then greenlight pulling it in.

Then I guess to keep the anons hopeful that they are still in the SDLC somewhere their commits can go into the completely untrusted-unstable-crazytown release that no instutution in their right mind would ever lay down in production.

Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl... by LtWorf on Sunday March 31, 2024 @04:24AM (#39882459)
Anons will just steal identities, and randos will get accused of hacking they didn't do.
Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl... by withinboredom on Sunday March 31, 2024 @05:22AM (#39882703)
Do you think state actors won’t just print out random passports?