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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.