Re: Conclusions from CVE-2024-3094 (libxz disaster)

2024-03-30 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 31.03.24 01:07, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 03:30:49PM +, Daniel Golle wrote: unchanged. Git has a lot of security built-in, and by using tarballs as a base for our package builds we are basically throwing all that away, for the sake of saving a negligible amount of r

Re: Conclusions from CVE-2024-3094 (libxz disaster)

2024-03-30 Thread Elliott Mitchell
Reordering since I want to respond to different bits in a different order... On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 03:30:49PM +, Daniel Golle wrote: > > Hiding a malicious change in a commit is infinitely harder than hiding > it in a tarball. Yet most of the exploit/payload found so far was in commits, dis

Re: Conclusions from CVE-2024-3094 (libxz disaster)

2024-03-30 Thread Oldřich Jedlička
Hi, so 30. 3. 2024 v 16:31 odesílatel Daniel Golle napsal: > Hiding a malicious change in a commit is infinitely harder than hiding > it in a tarball. Just a note: The malicious code was part of the tarball because it was part of the main Git repository in the first place. Using Git would not he

Conclusions from CVE-2024-3094 (libxz disaster)

2024-03-30 Thread Daniel Golle
Hi everyone! you may all have heard and read about CVE-2024-3094. If not, please do so now [1], [2]. This incident has exposed many long standing issues and should not be seen as a singular event, but rather as the result of several unhealthy patterns. And while OpenWrt was not affected by the re

Project statement about xz 5.6.1 (CVE-2024-3094)

2024-03-30 Thread Petr Štetiar
Hi, tl;dr OpenWrt seems to be not affected by the CVE-2024-3094 As you may be aware, malicious code was identified[1] in the xz upstream tarballs starting from version 5.6.0. The development snapshots of OpenWrt were utilizing this compromised library version. Fortunately, the snapshots builds r

How to disable Image Padding for large x86 images?

2024-03-30 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hello, This is in reference to this patchset: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/patch/1553868440-26476-3-git-send-email-yn...@true.cz/ I am unable to find an option to disable padding to x86 images as it is taking a lot of time to build and flash the images of size 16 / 32 GB. Tha