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  • Anna@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlThe glass is NOT half full
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    2 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 nonexistant@...alhost
    
    before:
    nonexistant@...alhost: Permission denied (publickey).
    
    before:
    real	0m0.299s
    user	0m0.202s
    sys	0m0.006s
    
    after:
    nonexistant@...alhost: Permission denied (publickey).
    
    real	0m0.807s
    user	0m0.202s
    sys	0m0.006s
    

    That’s a 500ms or 0.5s difference





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