Re: [Full-disclosure] Evilgrade 2.0 - the update explotation framework is back

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Jhfjjf Hfdsjj <taser3000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:36 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> >On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:09:27 BST, Mario Vilas said:
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>>> >Just signing the update packages prevents this attack, so it's not that 
>>> >hard
>>>> to fix.
>>>
>>> Except if a signing key gets compromised, as happened to one Linux vendor
>>> recently, causing a lot of kerfluffle...
>
>>??? Are you ptoposing to throw the baby out with the bath water ??? I
>>would not have expected that from *.edu.
>
> I do not believe anyone is 'ptoposing' anything. All he said was that package
> signing should not be taken as a silver bullet, for experience has shown that
> the key's themselves are capable of being compromised if a vendor is
> successfully attacked.
>
> Exactly what I would expect from *.edu
I read differently,

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