Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due To XZ Nightmare

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Beta-Delayed

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rotopenguin@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 2y (4 replies)

My $0.05 reading of it is that they want to hose down the build servers* and start clean, in case if the attacker escaped the sandboxing there.

* (the computers that compile all of the new packages from source, not web servers that are handing out finished deb binaries to the public.)

style99@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They're rebuilding all the newer builds "out of an abundance of caution." The servers themselves obviously don't run on experimental software.

rollingflower@lemmy.kde.social · 4 pts · 2y

This.

rollingflower@lemmy.kde.social · 1 pts · 2y

They dont run experimental software on their build servers.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

That would make sense if they ran servers on non-LTS release. Do they do that?

KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 2y

Just don't package it. And if you have to, sandbox it in Firejail or in Bubblewrap. Or just make Snap out of it.