Re: Developers are advised to purge these malicious packages

2019-12-07 Thread David Lowry-Duda
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 07:17:58PM +0100, Christian Heimes wrote: > > At least the first pages are packaging files for Debian, Fedora, and > other Linux distributions. Downstream distributions provide a Python > > > > Attackers abuse the fact and try to typo-squat packages in hope that > somebod

Re: Developers are advised to purge these malicious packages

2019-12-05 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Christian Heimes writes: > On 04/12/2019 18.59, David Lowry-Duda wrote: >> I notice that "python3-dateutil" is in over 4000 github repositories >> [1]. That sounds like a disaster. >> >> [1]: https://github.com/search?q=python3-dateutil&type=Code > > At least the first pages are packaging files

Re: Developers are advised to purge these malicious packages

2019-12-04 Thread Michael Torrie
On 12/4/19 10:59 AM, David Lowry-Duda wrote: > I notice that "python3-dateutil" is in over 4000 github repositories > [1]. That sounds like a disaster. > > [1]: https://github.com/search?q=python3-dateutil&type=Code It's clearly not, as Christian has already said. In fact it would be very diffic

Re: Developers are advised to purge these malicious packages

2019-12-04 Thread Christian Heimes
On 04/12/2019 18.59, David Lowry-Duda wrote: > I notice that "python3-dateutil" is in over 4000 github repositories > [1]. That sounds like a disaster. > > [1]: https://github.com/search?q=python3-dateutil&type=Code At least the first pages are packaging files for Debian, Fedora, and other Linux

Re: Developers are advised to purge these malicious packages

2019-12-04 Thread David Lowry-Duda
I notice that "python3-dateutil" is in over 4000 github repositories [1]. That sounds like a disaster. [1]: https://github.com/search?q=python3-dateutil&type=Code - DLD -- David Lowry-Duda -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Developers are advised to purge these malicious packages

2019-12-04 Thread Pankaj Jangid
``` The Python security team removed two trojanized Python libraries from PyPI (Python Package Index) that were caught stealing SSH and GPG keys from the projects of infected developers. The first is "python3-dateutil," which imitated the popular "dateutil" library. The second is "jeIlyfish" (th