On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 09:42:01AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > I suspect it might short-circuit the 'ahhh, but what about...' 'oooh, > but then I can...' nature of the conversation if you just put together a > proof-of-concept attack and document it somewhere. I suspect the git > maintainers might be interested at that point as well. :)
The attack is quite trivial: 1) clone the git pkg Fedora repos 2) commit some nasty change 3) publish the repo on some server 4) if the victim wants to fetch from the Fedora pkg repo, use the MITM attack to make him fetch from the server set up in step 3. Steps 1-3 can obviously be done on-demand. If this is e.g. done on a conference / FUDCon / Fedora Action Day, the attack can easily targeted to make the change in step 2 be expected to be fast forward. E.g. if packages simply need to be bumped for a rebuild, a upload of a bad tarball and modification of the sources file might be unnoticed. Regards Till -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
