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Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:31:07 -0500
From: HD Moore <hdm@...italoffense.net>
To: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, scarybeasts@...il.com
Subject: Re: vsftpd download backdoored
On 7/4/2011 9:26 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:09:32AM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
>> I did not verify.
>>
>> (09:55:37 AM) hdmoore: The timestamp on vsftpd-2.3.4.tar.gz
>> http://bit.ly/j4VC5y indicates that the backdoor was present from Feb
>> 15th -> July 3rd (via mc)
>
> Looks unrealistic to me. Feb 15 is when 2.3.4 was released by Chris.
> A copy I downloaded has mtime Feb 15 (preserved from the official
> download site) and ctime Mar 2 (when I downloaded it). It passes the
> GPG signature check and lacks the backdoor.
>
> Additionally, searching for the SHA-256 digest that Chris posted reveals
> only copies of his announcement of the incident and news stories about
> it. No hits for any distro's filelists, etc. I wish we had MD5 and
> SHA-1 to also search for, though. I don't have a copy of the backdoored
> vsftpd tarball to compute those, but we can ask Chris for them.
>
> My gut feeling is that the backdoored tarball has been on the site for
> 1 to 3 days. But I could be wrong.
Thanks for the CC -- as a guess as to what happened; was this particular
mirror compromised and the original tarball modified (along with its
mtime) to match the original Feb 15th date?
Does anyone have a "we noticed it first" flag that is before July 3rd?
Debian (and most other repos) are storing the SHA-256/SHA1/MD5 of each
source package, so a Feb 15 date does seem incredible, but so does the
complete pwnage of a non-official mirror with the original mtime, at the
same moment as an official dist server compromise. A nightly rsync would
account for this, but we would need to know more about the mirror
structure from Chris.
I am happy to correct the metasploit module if new facts arrive; thank
you to everyone who spends their free time dealing with this crap.
-HD
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