Lol we can be smug until someone sneaks a backdoor into nixpkgs for a while. For user envs updating the system doesnt mean the compromise is gone, although checking would be super easy.
I wouldn't be so sure it doesn't affect NixOS^[1].
I am not a security researcher, nor a reverse engineer. There's lots of
stuff I have not analyzed and most of what I observed is purely from
observation rather than exhaustively analyzing the backdoor code.
Also, it may take 10 days to downgrade the package^[2].
Yea, but the move to verify the path seemed somewhat funny at the time. As for the second part - it's a shame, but expected: they need to re-compile like everything. So, I just decided to wait since all my machines are ssh-ible from VPN only
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mvirts@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 2y
Lol we can be smug until someone sneaks a backdoor into nixpkgs for a while. For user envs updating the system doesnt mean the compromise is gone, although checking would be super easy.
unhinge@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y
I wouldn't be so sure it doesn't affect NixOS^[1].
Also, it may take 10 days to downgrade the package^[2].
fl42v@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Yea, but the move to verify the path seemed somewhat funny at the time. As for the second part - it's a shame, but expected: they need to re-compile like everything. So, I just decided to wait since all my machines are ssh-ible from VPN only