• raver
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    312 days ago

    Is there an article about that, I would like to read some more about this topic😊

    • Anna
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      12 days ago

      This is the original email by the person who discovered this backdoor. But if you want you can search for xz backdoor and you’ll find a lot more articles which explain timelines and other things. https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

       == Observing Impact on openssh server ==
      
      With the backdoored liblzma installed, logins via ssh become a lot slower.
      
      time ssh [email protected]
      
      before:
      [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
      
      before:
      real	0m0.299s
      user	0m0.202s
      sys	0m0.006s
      
      after:
      [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
      
      real	0m0.807s
      user	0m0.202s
      sys	0m0.006s
      

      That’s a 500ms or 0.5s difference