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Re:Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain... by Shellban on Friday July 18, 2025 @04:35PM (#44609542)
As @lillylizard pointed out, it turns out that these are new packages, not comprised existing packages like I first thought. Still, the nature of the hack is a Remote Execution, as you pointed out elsewhere, meaning the hacker could pull my router password from the password manager, or grab my SSH keys and log into whatever machine is listed in the known_hosts, or just mess with my Ebay account and the credit card saved on there. The hacker could in theory do literally anything I could do.
Re:Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain... by akerl_ on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:52PM (#44610221)
Sure, but only if you’d installed the affected AUR packages. Even if they were old packages, probably your SteamOS didn’t install them from the AUR.
Re:Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain... by Shellban on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:37PM (#44611039)
Whether or not SteamOS installed them is irrelevant. All the hacker would need is to compromise a machine that had some sort of remote access to other devices (ssh in this case, with some sort of keylogger to decrypt the private key).
Re:Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain... by nulld3v on Friday July 18, 2025 @08:08PM (#44611253)
You are not compromised unless you specifically installed one of these 3 packages on one of your machines:

- librewolf-fix-bin

- firefox-patch-bin

- zen-browser-patched-bin

The packages were only available for download for 3 days, and the only way you could have installed them is if you explicitly typed one of the package names into your terminal within those 3 days.

Did you do that? If no, then you are not compromised.

Re:Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain... by pndy on Saturday July 19, 2025 @11:54AM (#44616561)
I wonder if this is really about compromised packages or rather in wider view trying to paint Arch, AUR as insecure.