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[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 30 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Me: fixes exposure to vuln

Also me: grabs popcorn

This is going to be an interesting story once this all quiets down...

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fixes exposure

It says F39 users are not affected. Are you running Rawhide/F40 Beta? p

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

Running Arch, so not really exposed, but still had a compromised version installed.

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[–] wolf@lemmy.zip 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] wolf@lemmy.zip 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Supply chain attacks are extremely cheap/easy and very effective, so get prepared for more of them in the future.

It really bothers me, that many companies make billions utilizing open source without contributing money/employees etc. to secure/supply/maintain supply chains.

[–] RedNight@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This one might not have been that cheap. The malicious code was added by a maintainer on the project for two years. That is some patience

[–] wolf@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

Agreed. I am more speaking of 'in general', for example there was a supply chain attack on a widely used npm package by writing an email to the author of the npm package. There are other 'cheap' attacks like dependency confusion, typo squatting etc.

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago

Happy it doesn’t affect stable versions

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 7 months ago

Did they intentionally not put the package name in the headline just to draw more clicks? Ffs

[–] annata20@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

CVE-2024-3094 represents a serious security threat for Pokerogue Fedora Linux 40 and Rawhide users. Promptly updating your system and applying the necessary patches are crucial steps in mitigating this vulnerability.