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Old 14th June 2010
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Default IRC server had backdoor in source code for months

From http://www.h-online.com/security/new...s-1020987.html

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he developers of the open source IRC server UnrealIRCd have had to report that the file servers of the project were compromised several months ago and the IRC servers code, Unreal3.2.8.1.tar.gz was replaced by a version with a backdoor. The backdoor allows anyone to execute commands on the server running UnrealIRCd, with the privileges of the user running the IRC daemon, even if the IRC server is a hub or requires passwords to access it normally. According to the report, the version with the backdoor was apparently placed on file servers in November 2009, but remained unnoticed until now.
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Old 15th June 2010
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For an update see http://www.h-online.com/security/new...e-1020987.html
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I noticed that gentoo, who gets positive coverage in the login; article below for the way they sign packages, was at one point serving up the compromised source, while debian never packaged it, not because signatures or hashes alerted them to irregularities but because certain debian developers had bad feelings about the reliability of the source. That isn't to pick on Gentoo, but it fits very well with the sort of things you sometimes read in openbsd-ports or Bruce Schneier articles about technological measures verses social factors.

http://www.usenix.org/publications/l...dfs/samuel.pdf

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515130
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