Sourceware mitigating and preventing the next xz-backdoor

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Apr 3 08:08:26 GMT 2024


* Guinevere Larsen via Overseers:

> Beyond that, we (GDB) are already experimenting with approved-by, and
> I think glibc was doing the same.

The glibc project uses Reviewed-by:, but it's completely unrelated to
this.  Everyone still pushes their own patches, and there are no
technical countermeasures in place to ensure that the pushed version is
the reviewed version.

Thanks,
Florian



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