[ale] malicious make scripts

Kevin Krum kjkrum_ale at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 4 23:55:08 EST 2002



--- John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> Has there ever been a case of someone being bitten
> by a malicious make script?

Yes, I've heard of project mirrors getting cracked and
distributing trojaned make files that build and
install backdoors.  Always check your MD5s and sigs...
and don't compile as root unless you must!

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