On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 7:39 PM Matthias Koeppe
<matthiaskoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Workaround with the Sage distribution: "./configure --without-system-liblzma 
> --without-system-xz"
> (Our xz package dates back from before the attackers were born;)
>
> Incidentally, the cryptographic protection of the Sage distribution is wildly 
> insufficient.
> I've opened https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/37691 for this -- any 
> takers?

I'd switch to sha256.
And require PGP-signed commits, etc.

well, I can't even comment on that issue :-)


>
>
> On Friday, March 29, 2024 at 12:18:24 PM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>
>> https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
>>
>> if your have xz 5.6.0 or 5.6.1 installed (e.g. Debian testing/unstable)
>> you have a backdoored xz.
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