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she/her. hacker in tokyo.
Mar 30, 2024 25 tweets 8 min read
The setup behind the CVE-2024-3094 supply-chain attack is fascinating. I originally wanted to finish and share a tool to audit other OSS projects for anomalous contributor behavior, but I feel what I found trying to MVP it is way more interesting. 🧵 1/25 gist.github.com/rubyroobs/77cc…
diff of running strings on an existing test fixture in the xz project and the  one containing the injected code added by the attacker 2/25 If you haven't, please read the full @Openwall mailing list disclosure. The first advisory summary a friend shared with me had such a high-level overview that I feel I initially grossly underestimated the level of sophistication of this attack. openwall.com/lists/oss-secu…