this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
0 points (NaN% liked)

Linux

48009 readers
832 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Linux Firmware Update Utility Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression for Future Releases

The devs are also considering enforcing signed commits in an attempt to prevent supply chain issues like the XZ backdoor.

Edit: note for downvotes: I understand some of you disagree with the need for a switch. However, are you downvoting the news itself (i.e. shooting the messenger?)

top 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it solves nothing, cause it's not primarily a XZ issue itself, but some bad actors that infiltrate into the community for years to finally use his credibility to upload a backdoor. Every single package is vulnerable to this kind of attack and has little we can do to completely avoid it

Of course we have to make the best moves to prevent this happening again, however it's not a simple "I'll use X instead of Z" (see what I did here?!), cause both X and Z may be doomed with this shit anytime

[–] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

One good thing about zstd is that the main developer is full-time employed to work on it. Alas he's employed by meta to do that... But it's likely harder to social engineer your way into that project

[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Look at what libs zstd is linked to. You'll be surprised.

[–] Laser@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Here, it's libzstd.so, libc and glibc, and libzstd only libc and glibc. What do you mean? At first I thought you were implying an liblzma dependency, but there's no such thing, at least can't see it.

[–] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

Apparently it differs between distributions

[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
% libtree /usr/bin/zstd
/usr/bin/zstd 
├── libz.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
├── liblz4.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
└── liblzma.so.5 [ld.so.conf]
% lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release:        12
Codename:       bookworm
%
[–] Laser@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe Debian's goal is to make liblzma a dependency of everything possible? It wasn't a standard dependency of OpenSSH either, but rather something they patched in. ;)

[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's your distro and how did you check needed libraries? I guess that liblzma.so can be needed by libzstd.so in your system.

[–] Laser@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

NixOS, did a ldd (which zstd) and then ldd on the reported libzstd file.

Not using a POSIX shell before people complain about syntax

Edit: if you look at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/tools/compression/zstd/default.nix, you'll see that buildInputs is not being set, which means it can't link to anything except the standard libraries.