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Active AUR malicious packages incident (archlinux.org)

submitted 4 months ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

This attack was executed by a script running in the PKGBUILD itself. You didn't have to run the application to be infected since just building it will infect your machine.

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[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, I bet the build process could also be sandboxed, but Im sure its not the default.

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[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

Sandboxing the build process would be a process. Nix already does it, for example. Many AUR packages don't include a full list of dependencies.

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[–] patlefort@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It also had an install script that will be run as root when the package is installed. Can't sandbox that.

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