Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl...
by yencabulator on Sunday March 31, 2024 @11:53AM
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> The solution: Check the errors carefully!
The desire for "does this compile on this platform" checks comes from an era where there was pretty much no way to check the error. Somebody runs it on HP-UX with the "HP-UX Ansi C Compiler" they licensed from HP and the error it spits out isn't going to look like anything you recognize.
The desire for "does this compile on this platform" checks comes from an era where there was pretty much no way to check the error. Somebody runs it on HP-UX with the "HP-UX Ansi C Compiler" they licensed from HP and the error it spits out isn't going to look like anything you recognize.