Re: util-linux compromised

Neil Cherry (ncherry@home.net)
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 12:34:40 -0500


Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

I was lucky, it didn't install properly but now comes the question
how does one properly check that the file d/l'd is the correct one?

Are there any pointers on how to properly used the signatures? The
md5sum is obvious enough.

I also get the impression that this "trojan" is only part of an attack.
The commented out region in the install-sh was uudecodable but was
a short file. The uudecode file also contained the string found in the
Makefile. I have no idea what it means.

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