From owner-freebsd-security Wed May 30 16:43:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.noos.fr (lafontaine.noos.net [212.198.2.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD4C37B423 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:43:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clefevre@redirect.to) Received: (qmail 199267 invoked by uid 0); 30 May 2001 23:43:08 -0000 Received: from d081.dhcp212-198-228.noos.fr (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.228.81]) (envelope-sender ) by lafontaine.noos.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 30 May 2001 23:43:08 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4UNh6H92264; Thu, 31 May 2001 01:43:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from clefevre@redirect.to) To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Port distfiles: sourceforge compromise References: <20010530141757.A12467@schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr> X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C Reply-To: Cyrille Lefevre In-Reply-To: <20010530141757.A12467@schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Cyrille Lefevre Date: 31 May 2001 01:43:05 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org just FYI, a message from announce@openbsd.org Marc Espie writes: > I just got belated news that SourceForge got compromised. It's a case > were we are very happy we do have strong cryptographic checksums for > distfiles. > > * users, if you compile a port from source, be very paranoid around > checksum changes, especially if the port comes from sourceforge. > > * porters, please be very, very careful in updating/importing anything > that comes from sourceforge, at least for a while. This probably means > that ANY update should not be done unless you've actually LOOKED HARD > at the diff between the previous and the current version, or you have > complete insurance that Source Forge is not the main distribution site, > and the project could not have been tainted. Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@redirect.to UNIX is user-friendly; it's just particular work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr about who it chooses to be friends with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message