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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 07:58:39 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: HD Moore <hdm@...italoffense.net>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, scarybeasts@...il.com
Subject: Re: vsftpd download backdoored
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:31:07PM -0500, HD Moore wrote:
> Thanks for the CC -- as a guess as to what happened; was this particular
> mirror compromised
What mirror? As far as I'm aware, from the announcement by Chris, only
the official distribution site for vsftpd was compromised.
> and the original tarball modified (along with its
> mtime) to match the original Feb 15th date?
Maybe. Do you have a copy of the backdoored tarball? I don't, and no
one on forums where I saw this discussed appears to have it (which
confirms that it existed for a very short period of time only).
> Does anyone have a "we noticed it first" flag that is before July 3rd?
Not that I know of.
> 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.
Are you trying to say that Debian got the backdoored copy? This is news
to me.
Thanks,
Alexander
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