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Date:      Thu, 30 May 2002 11:13:33 +0200
From:      Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@brutele.be>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd@XtremeDev.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: irssi configure script backdoored, affects the build clusters?
Message-ID:  <20020530111333.3f8762f6.jylefort@brutele.be>
In-Reply-To: <20020527013149.C36810@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20020527004412.C18621-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> <20020527013149.C36810@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Mon, 27 May 2002 01:31:50 -0700
Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:47:09AM -0600, FreeBSD user wrote:
> > Regarding the bugtraq post of irssi configure script being
> > backdoored (see www.irssi.org and the bugtraq post from
> > martin@webtech.se), I'm curious as to how this affected the build
> > clusters that builds ports? And also, who do I poke/prod reguarding
> > this issue? security@freebsd.org?
> 
> I don't think FreeBSD ever shipped the version that was backdoored,
> but I haven't looked into it fully.

As stated on www.irssi.org, the FreeBSD port used the .bz2 tar file,
which wasn't backdoored, instead of the .gz one.

Regards,
Jean-Yves Lefort

-- 
Jean-Yves Lefort

jylefort@brutele.be
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